Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The skin covering the top of the human head.
- noun A portion of this skin with its attached hair, cut from a body especially as a battle trophy or as proof in claiming a bounty.
- noun A piece of hide from the skull of certain animals, such as the fox, shown as proof of killing in order to collect a bounty.
- intransitive verb To cut or tear the scalp from.
- intransitive verb To deprive of top growth or a top layer.
- intransitive verb To resell at a price higher than the established value.
- intransitive verb To buy and sell (securities or commodities) in order to make small quick profits.
- intransitive verb To engage in the reselling of something, such as tickets, at a price higher than the established value.
- intransitive verb To buy and sell securities or commodities for small quick profits.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cut or scrape. See
scalping-iron . - noun A bed of oysters or mussels.
- noun The top of the head; the head, skull, or sconce.
- noun The integument of the upper part of the head and associated subcutaneous structures; the skin, the occipitofrontalis muscle, and its broad fascia-like tendon and connective tissue, with their vessels and nerves, together forming the covering of the skull, and freely movable upon the subjacent bones.
- noun The scalp or a part of it, together with the hair growing upon it, cut or torn from the head of a living or dead person. Among the North American Indians scalps are taken as trophies of victory.
- noun The skin of the head of a noxious wild animal. A bounty has sometimes been offered for wolves' scalps.
- noun The head or skull of a whale exclusive of the lower jaw.
- noun In heraldry, the skin of the head of a stag with the horns attached: a rare bearing.
- To deprive of the scalp; remove the scalp of.
- Hence To skin or flay in general; denude; lay bare; specifically, to deprive of grass or turf.
- In milling: To separate (the fuzzy growths at the ends of the berries of wheat or other grain) by attrition and screening, with or without the employment of aspirators.
- To separate, after the first operation of the breaking-rolls (the broken wheat, semolina, and break-flour), and after each subsequent use of the breaking-rolls (making in some schemes of milling six separate operations) to treat (the products) in the same manner with sieves, bolts, or screens of different grades of fineness.
- To sell at less than official or recognized rates, by sharing the commission or profit with the purchaser, or by purchasing cheap and asking only a small advance: as, to
scalp railway-tickets. - In Amer. polit. slang, to destroy the political influence of, or punish for insubordination to party rule.
- noun An early type of cultivator blade, nearly horizontal in position, so called as cutting a thin layer from the soil. Cf.
sweep , 12 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.
- transitive verb (Surg.) To remove the skin of.
- transitive verb (Milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.
- intransitive verb Cant To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account.
- noun Scot. A bed of oysters or mussels.
- noun That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.
- noun 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.
- noun Fig.: The top; the summit.
- noun a long tuft of hair left on the crown of the head by the warriors of some tribes of American Indians.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun now dialectal The top of the head; the
skull . - noun anatomy The part of the
head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from - noun A
victory . - noun Scotland A bed or stratum of
shellfish ; ascaup . - verb To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
- verb slang To sell for a greatly inflated price to those in desperation, as in scalping tickets to a ball game.
- verb To
screen orsieve ore before further processing
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb sell illegally, as on the black market
- noun the skin that covers the top of the head
- verb remove the scalp of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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Maurie came into the clinic for what he calls a scalp condition—a scalp condition!
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Maurie came into the clinic for what he calls a scalp condition—a scalp condition!
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Maurie came into the clinic for what he calls a scalp condition—a scalp condition!
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When a man falls in battle, his scalp is carried away in token.
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Despite appearances, though, a man's scalp is not tough.
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The skin on the scalp is relatively thin, and taut.
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She was actually quite pretty despite the scars I could see on her scalp from the operations and the pale, pale dying skin of her.
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And probably shower because my scalp is bugging me.
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When a man falls in battle, his scalp is carried away in token.
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