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As nouns the difference between skull and furniture

is that skull is (anatomy) the main bones of the head considered as a unit; the cranium or skull can be while furniture is large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.

As a verb skull

is to hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.

skull

English

(wikipedia skull)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), probably from (etyl) . Compare (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m). http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/skull?s=t

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (anatomy) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; the cranium.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • He was about to roar when, lying among the black sticks and straw under the cliff, he saw a whole skull'—perhaps a cow's '''skull''', a '''skull''', perhaps, with the teeth in it. Sobbing, but absent-mindedly, he ran farther and farther away until he held the ' skull in his arms.
  • A symbol for death; death's-head
    • Derived terms
    * numskull, numbskull * skull and crossbones * (l)
    Synonyms
    * brainpan * cranium (anatomy) * harnpan
    Meronyms
    * (-)
    See also
    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.

    • References

    Etymology 2

    See .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1586 , , Albion’s England :
    • A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him.
  • * 1601 , (Philemon Holland) (translator), (Pliny the Elder) (author), , book IX, chapter xv: “Of the names and natures of many fishes.”:
    • These fishs, togither with the old Tunies and the young, called Pelamides, enter in great flotes and skulls , into the sea Pontus, for the sweet food that they there find: and every companie of them hath their fever all leaders and captaines; and before them all, the Maquerels lead the way; which, while they be in the water, have a colour of brimstone; but without, like they be to the rest.
    (Webster 1913) ----

    furniture

    English

    (wikipedia furniture)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.
  • :
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  • *
  • *:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,
  • The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
  • *, I.42:
  • *:We commend a horse because he is strong and nimble,and not for his furniture : a greyhound for his swiftnesse, not for his collar: a hawke for her wing, not for her cranes or bells.
  • *1934 , (George Cameron Stone), A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor , ISBN 0486407268.
  • *:Amongst the rich this part of a hawk's furniture is ornamented with embroidery, handsome silver aigrettes, tassels and other decorations.
  • *2002 , Ronald Pawly, Wellington's Dutch Allies 1815 , page 19, ISBN 1841763934.
  • *:Horse furniture included a white sheepskin with red ‘wolf's teeth’; blue shabraque with yellow edging and royal cypher; blue valise with yellow edging.
  • Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
  • *1994 , Philip Haythornthwaite, British Cavalryman 1792-1815 , page 30, ISBN 1855323648.
  • *:a new universal pistol, one to be carried by each man, with a 9-inch barrel of musket-bore and an iron ramrod carried in the holster; the furniture was reduced to just a brass trigger guard (no butt-plate), and some were fitted with Nock's lock.

    • Usage notes

    * Before the end of the nineteenth century, the plural furnitures existed in Standard English in both the U.S. and the U.K.; during the twentieth century, however, it ceased to be used by native speakers. * A single item of furniture, such as a chair or a table, is often called a (term).

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Meronyms

    * drawer * wardrobe

    Related terms

    * furnish

    Derived terms

    * occasional furniture * piece of furniture * street furniture

    External links

    * * 1000 English basic words