A rebus is a puzzle that uses symbols or pictures to represent the sounds of words. A picture of an eye, a heart, and a ewe might be used to say "I love you." Isn't that sweet?
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.
Noun
a puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words
n.
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.
n.
A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the
person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting.
v. t.
To mark or indicate by a rebus.
Rebus
Rebus
He [John Morton] had a fair library rebused with More in text and Tun under it.
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.
To mark or indicate by a rebus.
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