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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scalp \Scalp\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Scalped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scalping}.]
1. To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.
2. (Surg.) To remove the skin of.
We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye]. --J. S. Wells.
3. (Milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling. --Knight.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scalp \Scalp\, verb (used without an object) 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]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scalp \Scalp\ (sk[a^]lp), noun [Cf. {Scallop}.] A bed of oysters or mussels. [Scot.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scalp \Scalp\, noun [Perhaps akin to D. schelp shell. Cf. {Scallop}.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
scalp
noun: the skin that covers the top of the head; "they wanted to take his scalp as a trophy"
verb
1: sell illegally, as on the black market
2: remove the scalp of; "The enemies were scalped"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "scalp": bark, be caught short, be short, belong, bucket, bucketshop, decorticate, deposit margin, excoriate, flay, go long, hold on, make a killing, make a scoop, margin up, miss the market, operate, overstay the market, pare, peel, play the market, plunge, pyramid, scoop the market, skin, speculate, stag, stag the market, strip, take a flier, trade on margin, venture
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