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.
SCALPED
Adjective
scalped (not comparable)
(in combination) Having some specific type of scalp
Verb
scalped
simple past tense and past participle of scalp
Anagrams
• clasped
Source: Wiktionary
SCALP
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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