SCALP

A bed of oysters or mussels. [Scot.]

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.

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.

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.

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

To remove the skin of. We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye]. J. S. Wells.

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

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]