skull, n.Definitions

The Skull is difficult to imagine being a woman.

The Skull is always laughing at the same joke.

A Skull is an object which is difficult to imagine could have been a woman.

The Skull is what survives of the living being once its body has been destroyed, thus it becomes a receptacle for life and for thought, and in alchemy, it is represented as the receptacle used in the processes of transmutation.

The Skull is broadly speaking, an emblem of the mortality of man, as in the literary examples of Hamlet and Faust.