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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

... from the effects of the shot that had plowed a furrow through his scalp, his assailant did not permit him to have ...

— Five Thousand Dollars Reward • Frank Pinkerton

... is one, were sung when the people with rhythmic steps celebrated ceremonially the return of victorious warriors. Because of its peculiar accessory, the scalp, this ceremony has been called by us the "scalp dance," although ...

— Indian Story and Song - from North America • Alice C. Fletcher

... found the gay informality of these evenings delightful had his mind been at ease about his Sitkans, and Concha a trifle more personal. He had begun by suspecting that she was maneuvering for his scalp, but he was forced to acquit her; for not only did she show no provocative favor to another, but she seemed to have gained in dignity and pride since his arrival, actually to have kissed her hand in farewell to the childhood he had been so slow in divining; grown—he ...

— Rezanov • Gertrude Atherton

... hoofs gilded and tied together over the right shoulder, to leave the right arm disengaged to strike, its head clothing the human head within, as Alexander, on some of his coins, looks out from the elephant's scalp, and Hercules out of the jaws of a lion, on the coins of Camarina. Those diminutive golden horns attached to the forehead, represent not fecundity merely, nor merely the crisp tossing of the waves of streams, ...

— Greek Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater

... favor you with sundry touches Of the paint-smutches with which the Duchess Heightened the mellowness of her cheek's yellowness (To get on faster) until at last her Cheek grew to be one master-plaster Of mucus and fucus from mere use of ceruse: {830} In short, she grew from scalp to udder Just the object ...

— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson

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