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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 small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.

One who, or that which, scalps.

a. & n. from Scalp. Scalping iron (Surg.), an instrument used in scraping foul and carious bones; a raspatory. -- Scalping knife, a knife used by north American Indians in scalping.

Shaped like a chisel; as, the scalpriform incisors of rodents.

An earpick.

An instrument for scraping the teeth.

Situated above, or on the anterior side of, the scapula.

A strong scalpel used in the dissection of joints.

The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.

The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc.

A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite.

e under Condense, v. t. -- Milk crust (Med.), vesicular eczema occurring on the face and scalp of nursing infants. See Eczema. -- Milk fever. (a) (Med.) A fever which accompanies or precedes the first lactation. It is usually transitory. (b) (Vet. Surg.) A form puerperal peritonitis in cattle; also, a variety of meni…

or near the seashore, where oysters are deposited to grow and fatten for market. See lst Scalp, n. -- Oyster catcher (Zoöl.), any one of several species of wading birds of the genus Hæmatopus, which frequent seashores and feed upon shellfish. The European species (H. ostralegus), the common American species (H. palli…

s covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton).

d crow. [Ireland] -- Scald head (Med.), a name popularly given to several diseases of the scalp characterized by pustules (the dried discharge of which forms scales) and by falling out of the hair.

A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp. It is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head. Lev. xiii. 30.

A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp. [Scot.]

s upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff.

A pustular eruption upon the scalp, or the beared part of the face, whether due to ringworm, acne, or impetigo.