| Pronunciation: | | skalp
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- [n] the skin that covers the top of the head; "they wanted to take his scalp as a trophy"
- [v] remove the scalp of; "The enemies were scalped"
- [v] sell illegally, as on the black market
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| | See Also: | | cutis, human head, lift, remove, sell, skin, take, take away, tegument, withdraw |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Scalp\ (sk[a^]lp), n. [Cf. {Scallop}.]
A bed of oysters or mussels. [Scot.]
\Scalp\, n. [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\, 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.) To remove the skin of.
We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye]. --J. S.
Wells.
3. (Milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat
grains, in the process of high milling. --Knight.
\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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