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What's The Definition Of Scalp?

\Scalp\ (sk[a^]lp), n. [Cf. {Scallop}.] A bed of oysters or mussels. [Scot.]
\Scalp\, n. [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.
\Scalp\, v. t. [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.
\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]