Death's-head
Pronunciation : Death's"-head`
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death. I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth. Shak. Death's-head moth (Zo?l.), a very large European moth (Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling a human skull on the back of the thorax; -- called also death's-head sphinx.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913