Thesaurus: scalp

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1. n. A bed of oysters or mussels.
2. n. That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.
3. n. 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.
4. n. Fig.: The top; the summit.
5. v. t. To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.
6. v. t. To remove the skin of.
7. v. t. To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.
8. 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.
9. n. the skin that covers the top of the head
10. v. sell illegally, as on the black market
11. v. remove the scalp of
12. A bed of oysters or mussels. [Scot.] 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. 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 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]