Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
SCALP
scalp
(noun) the skin that covers the top of the head; “they wanted to take his scalp as a trophy”
scalp
(verb) remove the scalp of; “The enemies were scalped”
scalp
(verb) sell illegally, as on the black market
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
scalp (plural scalps)
(now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.
Synonym: skull
The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
(historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
(heraldry) The skin of the head of a stag with the horns attached.
(figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
(Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.
Synonym: scaup
(figurative) The top; the summit.
Synonym: summit
Verb
scalp (third-person singular simple present scalps, present participle scalping, simple past and past participle scalped)
To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
(North America, slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
Synonym: resell
(finance) On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
Synonym: sieve
(surgery) To remove the skin of.
• J. S. Wells
(transitive) To remove the grass from.
(transitive) To destroy the political influence of.
(milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
Anagrams
• calps, claps, clasp
Source: Wiktionary
Scalp, n. Etym: [Cf. Scallop.]
Definition: A bed of oysters or mussels. [Scot.]
Scalp, n. Etym: [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.)
Definition: To remove the skin of. We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye]. J. S. Wells.
3. (Milling.)
Definition: To brush the hairs of fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling. Knight.
Scalp, v. i.
Definition: 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]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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