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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: rebus (0.00897 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to rebus.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: rebus
rebus
n : a puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures
representing syllables and words
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Rebus
Rebus
\Re"bus\, v. t.
To mark or indicate by a rebus.
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He [John Morton] had a fair library rebused with More
in text and Tun under it. --Fuller.
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Rebus
\Re"bus\ (r[=e]"b[u^]s), n.; pl.
Rebuses
(r[=e]"b[u^]s*[e^]z). [L. rebus by things, abl. pl. of res a
thing: cf. F. r['e]bus. Cf. 3d
Real.]
1. A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of
objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables
of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of
words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up
of such representations.
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Note: A gallant, in love with a woman named Rose Hill, had,
embroidered on his gown, a rose, a hill, an eye, a
loaf, and a well, signifying, Rose Hill I love well.
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2. (Her.) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the
name of the person to whom it belongs. See
Canting arms,
under
Canting.
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