单词 | mort-head |
释义 | > as lemmasmort-head mort-head n. British regional (chiefly Scottish) a death's head. ΚΠ 1554–5 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 359 Item, for half ane quarter quhit sating to be the mort heids, iiijr. 1722 A. Nisbet Syst. Heraldry I. 267 Crest, a Mort-head, with two Leg-Bones, Saltier-ways proper. 1900 Weekly Free Press & Aberdeen Herald 29 Dec. Weel, boys, fat think ye o' a mort-heid an' a white sheet at his window. 1912 N. Munro Ayrshire Idylls 132 She spoke of many names I could see on ony Sunday carved under mort-head and cherubim in Girvan churchyard. < as lemmas |
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