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

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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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