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death's-head

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death's-head (dthshd)
n.
The human skull as a symbol of mortality or death.

death's-head
Noun
a human skull or a picture of one used to represent death or danger


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The profit of that enterprise will enable me to obtain a long, low, black schooner, raise a death's-head flag and engage in commerce on the high seas.
" I said, after contemplating it for some minutes, "this is a strange scarabæus, I must confess: new to me: never saw anything like it before - unless it was a skull, or a death's-head - which it more nearly resembles than anything else that has come under my observation.
His hands were bony claws, his emaciated face a sheer death's-head.
 
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