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Definition of Rebuses
1. rebus [n] - See also: rebus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rebuses
| rebuking rebukingly rebulb rebulbed rebulbing rebulbs rebulite rebullition reburial reburials | reburied reburies rebury reburying rebus rebuses (current term) rebuslike rebut rebutia rebutias | rebuts |
Literary usage of Rebuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Routledge's Every Boy's Annual by Edmund Routledge (1867)
"ANSWERS TO CHARADES, rebuses, &c. On Pages 190, 191, and 192. CRYPTOGRAPH. ...
rebuses. 2. Russia—Timber. 1. Charles Dickens—Alfred Tennyson. 3. ..."
2. History of the Insurrection in China: With Notices of the Christianity by Joseph-Marie Callery, Melchior Yvan (1854)
"Prophetic rebuses. THE preceding pages were written when the Hong Kong journals
of the 22nd of April reached us. One of the Anglo-Chinese papers states, ..."
3. English Surnames: An Essay on Family Nomenclature, Historical, Etymological by Mark Antony Lower (1849)
"... A CHAPTER OP rebuses. " This for Rebus may suffice, and yet if there were more
I think some lippes would like such kind of Lettuce.1'—CAMDEN. j]HE word ..."
4. A Grammar of English Heraldry by William Henry St. John Hope (1913)
"CHAPTER V CRESTS, BADGES, rebuses, AND SUPPORTERS ALMOST as early as the introduction
of armorial shields there came into being the objects known as crests. ..."
5. The Young Lady's Book: A Manual of Amusements, Exercises, Studies, and Pursuits by Matilda Anne Planche Mackarness (1888)
"... rebuses. I. A fruit I am, though somewhat rare : To birds perchance I prove
a snare. Another hint should you require, I am a stone, and tried by fire. ..."
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