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(sklp), 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] スポンサード リンク
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