rebus
(noun) a puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words
Source: WordNet® 3.1
rebus (plural rebuses)
A kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words.
(heraldry) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs.
• (word puzzle): dingbat
rebus (third-person singular simple present rebuses, present participle rebusing, simple past and past participle rebused)
(transitive) To mark or indicate by a rebus.
• Burse, Suber, Ubers, buers, bures, burse, erubs, resub, rubes, suber, urbes
Source: Wiktionary
Re"bus, n.; pl. Rebuses. Etym: [L. rebus by things, abl. pl. of res a thing: cf. F. rébus. Cf. 3d things, abl. pl. of res a thing: cf. F. rébus. 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.
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.
2. (Her.)
Definition: A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting.
Re"bus, v. t.
Definition: To mark or indicate by a rebus. He [John Morton] had a fair library rebused with More in text and Tun under it. Fuller.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 May 2025
(noun) excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
