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noun

Scalp n. A bed of oysters or mussels. (Scot.)

Scalp n.

That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair. "By the bare scalp of Robin Hodd's fat friar, This fellow were a king for our wild faction!"

A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, cut or torn off from an enemy by the Indian warriors of North America, as a token of victory.

Fig.: The top; the summit.

Scalp lock, a long tuft of hair left on the crown of the head by the warriors of some tribes of American Indians.

verb

Scalp v. t. (past & past part. scalped; pres. part. scalping)

To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.

(Surg.) To remove the skin of. "We must scalp the whole lid (of the eye)."

(Milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.

Scalp v. i. To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account. (Cant)

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Etymology of 'Scalp'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Scalp" Quotes from Famous Books

... my scalp was accompanied by an equally painstaking treatment of my complexion, and this painful care also showed a tendency to apply too drastic remedies. If my skin was chapped by the east wind or the severe heat of the sun, my mother was immediately ...

— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various

... beer cellars,' a sailor observed to us slyly, and hitched himself up from the breech to the scalp. ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... a bear will often desist from further ill-treatment of his victims; and if the latter will but lie still and feign dead, the monster will give up mauling him, and shamble off from the ground, apparently satisfied with having taken the scalp. ...

— Bruin - The Grand Bear Hunt • Mayne Reid

... held that the Quiet made all things 170 Which Setebos vexed only: 'holds not so. Who made them weak, meant weakness He might vex. Had He meant other, while His hand was in, Why not make horny eyes no thorn could prick, Or plate my scalp with bone against the snow, Or overscale my flesh 'neath joint and joint, Like an orc's armour? Ay,—so spoil His sport! He is the One now: only He ...

— Browning's Shorter Poems • Robert Browning

... old Frenchman was apt to get soundly belabored by his mongrel offspring. In a furious scuffle of the kind, one of the sons got the old man upon the ground, and was upon the point of scalping him. "Hold! my son," cried the old fellow, in imploring accents, "you are too brave, too honorable to scalp your father!" This last appeal touched the French side of the half-breed's heart, so he suffered the old man to wear his ...

— Astoria - Or, Anecdotes Of An Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains • Washington Irving

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