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DEATH'S-HEAD
A nakedhumanskull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death. "I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth.
" (Shak) Death's-head moth, a very big European moth (Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling a humanskull on the back of the thorax.
Synonym: death's-head sphinx.
Source: Websters Vocabulary