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Entries releated to SCULL

 

ARK		A boat or wherry. Let us take an ark and winns, let us take a sculler.
GOLGOTHA OR THE PLACE OF SCULLS		Part of the Theatre at Oxford, where the heads of houses sit; those gentlemen being by the wits of the university called sculls.
MUD		A fool, or thick-sculled fellow; also, among printers the same as dung among journeymen taylors. See DUNG.
NUMBSCULL		A stupid fellow.
OLIVER'S SCULL		A chamber pot.
PAPER SCULL		A thin-scull'd foolish fellow.
SAPSCULL		A simple fellow. Sappy; foolish.
SCULL		A head of a house, or master of a college, at the universities.
SCULL THATCHER		A peruke-maker.
SCULL, or SCULLER		A boat rowed by one man with a light kind of oar, called a scull; also a one-horse chaise or buggy.