Category:Scalp

Scalp, n. Etym: [cf. Scallop.]

Defn: a bed of oysters or mussels. [scot.]

Scalp Scalp, n. Etym: [perhaps akin to d. schelp shell. Cf. Scallop.]

1. 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! Shak.

2. 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.

3. Fig.: The top; the summit. Macaulay. Scalp lock, a long tuft of Hair left on the crown of the head by the warriors of some tribes of American indians.

Scalp Scalp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scalped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scalping.]

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

2. (surg.)

Defn: to remove the skin of. We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye]. J. S. Wells.

3. (milling.)

Defn: to brush the hairs of fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the Process of high milling. Knight.

Scalp Scalp, v. i.

Defn: 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]