scalpnoun/skælp/

• 1

  dialectalThe top of the head; the skull.

• 2

  The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.

  • By the bare scalpe of Robin Hoods fat Fryer, / This fellow were a King, for our wilde faction.
  • The original titanium mesh plate that was inserted in the summer of 2010 was removed last June since it was causing his scalp to break down.
• 3

  historicalThe part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.

  • Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.
  • The most disturbing thing about Disneyland is seeing all those smiling people walking around wearing Mickey Mouse's severed scalp.
• 4

  governmentheraldryhobbiesThe part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.

  • He bears for Arms : Argent, on a chevron invected gules, between two bugle-horns sable, stringed of the second in chief, and the attires of a stag affixed to the scalp in base of the third, two fasces chevronways or.
• 5

  A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.

  • [At the American State Convention in 1856 the Hon E. M. Yerger of Yazoo said that] he came up to the great council fire of his people, not like his friends Cobb, Hillyer and Brooke, with no scalps at his girdle that he had had a fight and a glorious victory.
  • His mind is quick to perceive a weak place in the enemy's armor, as he glances over the exchanges, and when he "goes for" a solitary foe he always returns with the scalp hanging at his girdle.
• 6

  A bed or stratum of shellfish.

• 7

  The top; the summit.

  • the snowy scalp of Ben Cruachan

scalpverb/skælp/

• 1

  To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.

  • Next morning, the Indians attacked us and one of our hunters, George Huffman, was killed and scalped. As soon as Baldwin heard the shooting, he came to our assistance.
• 2

  slangTo resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.

  • Tickets were being scalped for $300.
  • Tickets sold online through Craigslist, eBay, and other forums, where the purchaser cannot physically see them, run a greater risk of being counterfeit—but counterfeiters have been known to scalp tickets in person outside the venue as well, […]
• 3

  gamblinggamesTo bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.

  • The only sure thing about scalping the Series today is that the scalper is paying the bookie a greater profit because he is making a greater number of bets.
• 4

  businessfinanceOn 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).

• 5

  To screen or sieve ore before further processing.

  • scalped ore
• 6

  medicinesciencessurgeryTo remove the skin of.

  • We must […]"scalp" the whole lid [of the eye].
• 7

  To remove the grass from.

• 8

  To destroy the political influence of.