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- noun Plural form of
rebus .
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Apparently, constitutional law is taught with rebuses and frenzied pantomime.
Obama Oil Spill Speech Criticized By CNN's Language Analyst For Not Being Moronic Enough [UPDATE]
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The astrolabe and chess pieces, for example, offered rebuses for memory training and metaphors of prudent governance in addition to their more familiar applications in astronomical observation and gentlemanly gamesmanship.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Apparently, constitutional law is taught with rebuses and frenzied pantomime.
Obama Oil Spill Speech Criticized By CNN's Language Analyst For Not Being Moronic Enough [UPDATE]
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We shall gather all of these rebuses together and bind them in a cover, with some really nice calligraphy.
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I am even now sponsoring both infant and primary schools to create water-coloured rebuses that express my apology for all of the meanings that I did not intend.
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Addendum: Speaking of math geek rebuses, if you do want to pick up a math nerd, try telling them:
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He, the seeker after numerical combinations, the solver of amusing problems, the answerer of charades, rebuses, logogryphs, and such things, was at last in his true element.
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A large number of rebuses ending in "ton" are based upon a tun or barrel; such are the _lup_ on a _ton_ of Robert Lupton, Provost of Eton
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The first part of _The Merry-Thought_ alone contains seven rebuses from
The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1
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I sometimes indulged my fancy in writing verses, or composing rebuses, and my governess never failed to applaud the juvenile compositions I presented to her.
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