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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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"Scalp" Quotes from Famous Books

... struck on the head by the nose-cap of a German shell (now in the possession of my guidwife). Unfortunately I was wearing one of they steel helmets at the time, with the result that I sustained a serious scalp-wound, also very bad concussion. I have never had a liking for they ...

— All In It K(1) Carries On - A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand • John Hay Beith (AKA: Ian Hay)

... pretended astonishment. "Well, King-Fisher, as popular opinion is against me, I'll set you down again, and nurse my poor scalp," and down went the white bundle again to the floor, Phronsie going back to ...

— Five Little Peppers Grown Up • Margaret Sidney

... internecine conflict. Both were equally implied in the older conditions, and both still exist. Some races form alliances, while others are crowded out of existence. Of course, I cease to do some things which I should have done before. I don't attack the first man I meet in the street and take his scalp. One reason is that I don't expect he will take mine; for, if I did, I fear that, even as a civilised being, I should try to anticipate his intentions. This merely means that we have both come to see that we have a common interest in keeping the peace. And this, again, merely ...

— Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) - Addresses to Ethical Societies • Sir Leslie Stephen

... the enemy would not fire at them for fear of killing him, as he would alarm them by his voice. The lads were ordered, by an officer who discovered them at their amusement, to untie their prisoner, and take him off to the guard, which they did, but were so inhuman as to take part of his scalp on the way. There happened to him ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 • Charles H. Sylvester

... turned up on the open range except when the pinch of cold and famine drove a few timber wolves down from the north. Men saw these things and wondered if all of Collins' sweeping prophecies would come to pass. In the face of conditions that had placed a value on the coyote's pelt and a bounty on his scalp, there was no apparent decrease in the numbers of the yellow ...

— The Yellow Horde • Hal G. Evarts

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