Meaning of CROSSBONES
| Pronunciation: | | 'kros`bownz
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| | Definition: | | [n] two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed bones) used as a symbol danger or death |
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| | See Also: | | symbol, symbolic representation, symbolisation, symbolization | |
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| | Definition: | | \Cross"bones`\ (-b[=o]nz`), n. pl.
A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a
skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and
serving as a symbol of death.
Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios
emblems of mortality. --Hawthorne.
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| | Related Terms: | | angel of death, ankh, avellan cross, Azrael, Black Death, Calvary cross, chi, chi-rho, christcross, Christogram, crisscross, cross, cross ancre, cross botonee, cross bourdonee, cross fitche, cross fleury, cross formee, cross fourchee, cross grignolee, cross moline, cross of Cleves, cross of Lorraine, cross patee, cross recercelee, cross-crosslet, crosslet, crucifix, cruciform, crux, crux ansata, crux capitata, crux decussata, crux gammata, crux immissa, crux ordinaria, dagger, Death, ex, exing, fork cross, gammadion, Greek cross, Grim Reaper, inverted cross, Jerusalem cross, Latin cross, long cross, Maltese cross, memento mori, Pale Death, pale horse, pale rider, papal cross, pectoral cross, potent cross, Reaper, rood, Russian cross, saltire, sickle of Death, skull, skull and crossbones, swastika, T, tau, that fell sergeant, that grim ferryman, trefled cross, voided cross, white cross, X |
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