(1) For Leonardo, the double meaning of word-images in a rebus , like the deceptive vagaries and elusive nature of vision, must have made him acutely aware of the relativity of perception.

(2) Amongst fragments set into the background of a fifteenth-century panel depicting St Mary Magdalen in the east chancel window are quarries with fragments of the Lovell rebus .

(3) The relaxed conjunction of leaf and slingshot forms a rebus , suggesting the proximity of support and threat in relationships between things - all sorts of things, human, animal and mineral.

(4) Suppose I have a picture-puzzle, a rebus , in front of me.

(5) An epigraph typically functions as a rebus for an essay, providing a gloss or indicating the author's approach.

(6) Similar to doing a rebus or crossword puzzle, it's a drawing of nine dots, and the challenge is to connect them without lifting the pen from the paper.

(7) Just last week one of the words in the rebus puzzle was a cow plus a banjo minus the letter u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510M.u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb

(8) It's in the form of a rebus and translates to u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510I'm watching you.u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb

(9) It may be that the heraldic nature of the squirrel's significance in the painting suggested the rebus like pun to represent the place name.

(10) A rebus is a picture puzzle, and it seemed to click.

(11) It's something of a rebus, though perhaps involving more associative skills than your average rebus and doesn't make sense except as a melding of personae.

(12) The bamboo signifies uprightness, as mentioned above; the fungus, or lingzhi, was also thought to contribute longevity and the five bats are a rebus or pun.

(13) As layered rebuses of meaning with an exceptional iconographic density, they visually manipulated inherited codes of social value, adroitly invoking both positive and negative contemporary references.

(14) Visual puns and rebuses had been popular features in the heraldic imprese or devises of France for centuries.

(15) Among the myriad rebuses on the aforementioned double-sided sheet at Windsor, there is an elaborate one on the verso that includes an image of a black yarnwinder.

(16) Margaret's shrinelike tomb canopy is almost hidden under carved foliage and tracery, with openwork rebuses , initials and ropework.

(17) Designs often took the form of pictorial puns and rebuses , or word puzzles.

(18) There seem to be puzzles, maybe even a few rebuses or word-games hidden in it too.