Scalp
Pronunciation : Scalp
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Cf. Scallop.]
Definition : Defn: A bed of oysters or mussels. [Scot.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Scalp
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Perhaps akin to D. schelp shell. Cf. Scallop.]
Definition : 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Scalp
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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.
t. [imp. & p. p. Scalped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scalping.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Scalp
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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]
i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913