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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

... spoke the sailor took off his hat and exhibited a head which had been trimmed down till all the scalp resembled a dingy brush, for it was cut with the most perfect regularity, for the hair to stand up in bristly fashion for about a quarter of an inch from ...

— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn

... looked up over his spectacles, held for an instant a gallipot suspended between finger and thumb, and set it down with nice judgment. He was extremely bald, and he pushed his spectacles high up on his scalp. Then he smiled benevolently. "What can I do ...

— True Tilda • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... a better fate, it seemed. When the captain overhauled his nephew, he found that he had sustained, beside the scalp wound from which he bled so much, a broken arm, a lacerated leg above the knee, and several broken ribs. These ribs and possible internal injuries are what feazed Captain Hi. He was no mean "catch as catch can" surgeon; most whaling captains have had to tackle serious medical and surgical difficulties ...

— Swept Out to Sea - Clint Webb Among the Whalers • W. Bertram Foster

... chair with deadly, inconceivable terror clutching at his heart. The shape, whose left hand rested on the table, was rising to a standing posture behind his seat, its right hand crooked above his scalp. There was black and tattered drapery about it; the coarse hair covered it as in the drawing. The lower jaw was thin—what can I call it?—shallow, like a beast's; teeth showed behind the black lips; there was no nose; the eyes, of a fiery yellow, against ...

— Ghost Stories of an Antiquary • Montague Rhodes James

... how narrow had been his escape, a bullet having struck the side of the poor fellow's head, just abrading the scalp. Half an inch lower must ...

— To Win or to Die - A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze • George Manville Fenn

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