Noun, : Two gates and a head is a rebus for Gateshead. From Dictionary.com.
Gero Pius Caputsapiens (Germanice Weishaupt), persona in rebus. From Wordnik.com. [04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004] Reference
Compofitis Icalias rebus, in Germaniu motus compe - fcuic. From Wordnik.com. [Iacobi â Bruck Angermunt cogn. Emblemata Politica : Quibus ea, quæ ad principatum spectant, breviter demonstrantur, singuloru[m] verò explicatio fusius proponitur ; Opus novum] Reference
His rebus is a ram wearing a collar with the letters R.Y.G.E. inscribed on it. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey] Reference
The next step is what we might call rebus-writing, where not the thing itself was meant but the sound. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
This is pictorial phonetism; and pictorial phonetism is, in fact, pictorial punning, of the sort commonly known as the rebus, or charade. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference
Have you considered posting only in rebus?. From Wordnik.com. [Pat Yourselves on the Back] Reference
In the hollow of the arch-moulding are sixteen boars with rue leaves in their mouths, forming a "rebus" of the dean’s name. From Wordnik.com. [Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See] Reference
A picture cut at random into little bits to be put together again, or the juvenile imbecility known as the "rebus," or "picture puzzle.". From Wordnik.com. [The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems] Reference
~Thorkelin, G.J. ~ -- De Danorum rebus gestis secul. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference
The rest of the sign I suppose to be the rebus of his name. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference
A modern motto of the Somersetshire Bacons has an ingenious rebus. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850] Reference
Quibus rebus confectis, omnia propere per nuntios consuli declarantur. From Wordnik.com. [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference
Quibus rebus Micipsa tametsi initio laetus fuerat, existimans virtutem. From Wordnik.com. [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference
Victoriâ rebus humanis eodem Diê excessit vir Bellô ac Pacê summus. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland] Reference
This again confirms the theory of the rebus meaning of the cross-hatching. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference
F. Wietrowski, S.J. Historia de rebus in Pontificatu, S. Gregorii M. gestis, in fol. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Memmiadae nostro, quem tu, dea, tempore in omni omnibus ornatum voluisti excellere rebus. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
Ita, quod in adversis rebus optaverant otium, postquam adepti sunt, asperius acerbiusque fuit. From Wordnik.com. [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference
Sed ubi, omnibus rebus exploratis, Petreius tuba signum dat, cohortes paulatim incedere jubet, idem facit hostium exercitus. From Wordnik.com. [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference
'Omnes homines, patres conscripti, qui de rebus dubiis consultant, ab odio, amicitia, ira atque misericordia vacuos esse decet. From Wordnik.com. [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference
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