"rebusses" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1753, Jonathan Puzzle, “To the Reader”, in The Labyrinth: Being an Exercise for Wit and Humour by Rational Rebusses. […], Dublin: […] James Hoey, […], page 15",
          "text": "For the Sake of Variety I have, in the following Rebuſſes, differed in the Manner of Compoſition from the preceding Part of this Collection: As, /[…] / Theſe two Examples, with the Knowledge you muſt have acquired in this Kind of Gueſs-work, after having conſidered the ſeventy-ſix Rebuſſes already paſſed over, I think is a ſufficient Guide through the Labyrinth, but if ever you are at a Stand, catch bold directly of the Clew, which take my Word for it, will conduct you to the End without ſtumbling.",
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          "text": "Answers to the Rebusses in laſt Year’s Palladium.",
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          "ref": "1808, John Milner, An Historical and Critical Account of Winchester Cathedral, pages 91–92",
          "text": "There is a profusion of rebusses on the groining of the ceiling, in conformity with the taste of the age.[…]For, looking up to the groining round the centre orbs, one representing the Almighty, the other the Blessed Virgin, we find the following characters and rebusses: the letter T, the syllable Hun, the figure of a ton, for Thomas Hunton, and the figure[…] for prior.",
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          "ref": "1981, Middle and Secondary School Reading, list “combustion”, page 275, column 2",
          "text": "resolution / rebusses / communism",
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          "ref": "1986, Eutopías, page 108",
          "text": "Letters and script form rebusses or collages of images that convey a manifest content of an order both identical and contrary to that of the narrative.",
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