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.

noun. A bed of oysters or mussels.

To cut or scrape. See scalping-iron.

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.

noun. An early type of cultivator blade, nearly horizontal in position, so called as cutting a thin layer from the soil. Cf. sweep, 12 .

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. 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.

intransitive verb. To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account.

transitive verb. To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.

transitive verb. To remove the skin of.

transitive verb. To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.

noun. The top of the head; the skull.

noun. The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from

noun. A victory.

noun. A bed or stratum of shellfish; a scaup.

verb. To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.

verb. To sell for a greatly inflated price to those in desperation, as in scalping tickets to a ball game.

verb. To screen or sieve ore before further processing

verb. sell illegally, as on the black market

noun. the skin that covers the top of the head

verb. remove the scalp of

"Maurie came into the clinic for what he calls a scalp condition—a scalp condition!"

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scalped  scalping  scalpy  

cutis  sell  skin  tegument  

beard  belly  cheekbone  chin  complexion  

bark  be caught short  be short  belong  bucket  

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