Noun, : Two gates and a head is a rebus for Gateshead.    From Dictionary.com. 

Apparently, constitutional law is taught with rebuses and frenzied pantomime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Oil Spill Speech Criticized By CNN's Language Analyst For Not Being Moronic Enough [UPDATE]] Reference

We shall gather all of these rebuses together and bind them in a cover, with some really nice calligraphy.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Should Simon Singh Do Next?] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Should Simon Singh Do Next?] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

Cool puzzle, but like all rebuses, when you get the joke you may as well stop there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle] Reference

These clever rebuses and word puzzles have caused people to stop in their steps in curiosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference

Upon the newly-appointed bishops they poured out an endless succession of rhymes and rebuses, epigrams, caricatures and extravaganzas.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

You muddle yourself by not knowing what you mean by a word, and send out your unanswered riddles and rebuses to clear up other people's difficulties.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet at the Breakfast-Table] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire] Reference

Observing several to be very busy at the western end of the temple, I inquired into what they were doing, and found there was in that quarter the great magazine of rebuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Tales] Reference

John Hopkins was a peaceful citizen, who worked at rebuses of nights in a flat, but he was not without the fundamental spirit of resistance that comes with the battle-rage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million] Reference

Charades were acted; the forfeits that were given, and the rebuses that were not guessed, had to be redeemed by penances varying according to the nature of the guilty ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]

(18 April 2008) - by Sheena SoodLuxury Lab Linens, a purveyor of hand-printed bedding and unique designs, has just come out with a series of new throw pillows featuring rebuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cool Hunting] Reference

If you color the rebus squares black instead of putting the word BLACK in 'em, those new black squares make the grid symmetrical, and the entries that had the rebuses are still valid words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle] Reference

Tollan was represented by a bundle of rushes (Kingsborough, vol. vi, p. 177, note), as that was merely in accordance with the rules of the picture writing, which represented names by rebuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent] Reference

Pâris strikes the imagination by means of rebuses: an armchair garnished with clincher-nails will give "Clou, vis -- Clovis"; and, as the sound of frying makes "ric, ric," whitings in a stove will recall "Chilperic.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference

The Sphinx -- mighty guesser of riddles, reader of rebuses and universal solver of missing words -- looked over the unfathomable desert and these few pages, with the worried, hopeless expression of one who is obliged at last to give it up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Condensed Novels: New Burlesques] Reference

Like Broodthaers, Spector shows an affinity for unspectacular objects from the era of modernist glory in Europe: he's arranged old picture postcards so that their horizons line up, or grouped them by subject matter or into oblique rebuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Are they rebuses of memory, delusions of the self and the senses, or rather the schemes and symptoms of an order underlying the chaos of human relationships, and applying equally to the living and the dead, which is beyond our comprehension?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brit Lit Blogs] Reference

Happily the quaint fancies and primitive humour, which delighted our grandsires in the production of rebuses and such-like pleasantries, no longer find themselves displayed upon the fabric of our churches, and the "merry jests" have ceased to appear upon the memorials of the dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parish Clerk] Reference

A tree, which form, together with a man falling from a tree (I slip!), the rebuses of Abbot Islip, are well known.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short Account of King's College Chapel] Reference

This is from a March 1923 Minneapolis Tribune; the text says “the four rebuses represent articles that one would be almost sure to find in the average woman’s handbag.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wednesday Brain-Builder – The Bleat.] Reference

MSS. 5910) in the British Museum, we learn that “rebuses or name devices were brought into England after Edward III. had conquered France: they were used by those who had no arms, and if their names ended in Ton, as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography] Reference

(1472-1479), and possibly by a Thomas Compton, seeing that in the quatrefoiled circles in the heads of the lower lights there are rebuses -- a comb with TÕ, and CÕ with a TON (for Compton), as well as two intertwining initials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference

Y. Times please note) enough space to write in the answers, are packed with all kinds of word and picture puzzles, from crosswords (cryptic and normal), acrostics, logic games, cryptograms, and cartoon rebuses to competitions and other miscellaneous fun.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3] Reference

18 - i think rebuses are so awesome when kids are just getting really interested in reading - there is this one we must have read a MILLION times, that we can probably still recite by heart - "inside a house that is haunted" by alyssa satin capucilli (illustrated by tedd arnold).    From Wordnik.com.  [swiper, stop swiping!] Reference

Such rebuses are found in prehistoric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

There must be a limit, even to rebuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

There are also some rebuses, and some lettering.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See] Reference

What do these rebuses mean?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference