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   Scalp , n. [Cf. Scallop.] A bed of oysters or mussels. [Scot.]
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   Scalp, n. [Perhaps akin to D. schelp shell. Cf. Scallop.]
   That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.
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   By the bare scalp of Robin Hodd's fat friar,
   This fellow were a king for our wild faction!
   Shak.
   
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   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.
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   Fig.: The top; the summit.
   Macaulay.
   
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   Scalp lock, a long tuft of hair left on the crown of the head by the warriors of some tribes of American Indians.
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   Scalp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scalped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Scalping.]
   To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.
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   (Surg.) To remove the skin of.
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   We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye].
   J. S. Wells.
   
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   (Milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.
   Knight.
   
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   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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