Scalp /(skălp)/

Scalp

n.
  1. A bed of oysters or mussels. [Scot.]

Scalp

n.
  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!
  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.

Phrases & Compounds
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. To remove the skin of. (Surg.)
    We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye].
    — J. S. Wells.
  3. To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling. (Milling)

Scalp

v. i.
  1. 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]