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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Death's-head n. 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 Zool., 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.