Usually means: Bone structure enclosing the brain.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word skull:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. skull: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. skull: Merriam-Webster
  3. skull: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. skull: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. skull: Collins English Dictionary
  6. skull: Vocabulary.com
  7. Skull, skull: Wordnik
  8. skull: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Skull (anterior view), Skull (lateral view), Skull (posterior view), Skull (upper view), Skull, Skull, Skull, Skull, Skull, Skull, Skull, Skull, Skull, Skull, Skull: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. skull: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. skull: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. skull: Dictionary.com
  13. skull: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. skull: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SKULL (DC Comics), Skull (album), Skull (band), Skull (mythology), Skull (singer), Skull (symbolism), Skull, The Skull (album), The Skull (band), The Skull (film), The Skull (short story), The Skull: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Skull: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. skull: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. skull: Rhymezone
  19. skull: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. skull: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Skull: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. skull: FreeDictionary.org
  23. skull: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. skull: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. skull: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Skull: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  27. skull: Wiktionary
  28. Skull (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  29. skull: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Skull (human), skull: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. skull: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Skull: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Skull: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Skull: Anatomy of the Human Body
  8. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  9. Skull: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  10. Glossary of Skeletal Anatomy (No longer online)
  11. Skull (human), skull: Medical dictionary
  12. Skull: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  4. SKULL: Acronym Finder
  5. skull: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skull, skull, skull, skull: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See skulled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.
noun:  These bones as a symbol for death; death's-head.
noun:  (figuratively) The mind or brain.
noun:  A crust formed on the ladle, etc. by the partial cooling of molten metal.
noun:  The crown of the headpiece in armour.
noun:  (Scotland) A shallow bow-handled basket.
verb:  To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.
verb:  (transitive, golf) To strike the top of (the ball).
verb:  To drink everything that remains in a glass by upending it.
noun:  Obsolete form of school (“a multitude”). [(Canada, US) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.]

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