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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed bones) used as a symbol danger or death

Merriam Webster's

noun plural Date: 1686 two leg or arm bones placed or depicted crosswise — compare skull and crossbones

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a representation of two crossed thigh-bones (see SKULL).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Crossbones 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see skull and crossbones

Moby Thesaurus

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