scalp 
The scalp had been partially despoiled of hair from the 
disease. J. M. Camochan, Operative Surgery, p. 43. 
3. The scalp or a part of it, together with the 
hair growing upon it, cut or torn from the head 
of a living or dead person. Among the North 
American Indians scalps are taken as trophies 
of victory. 
Hurons and Oneidas, who speak the same tongue or 
what may be called the same, take each other's scalps. 
J. F. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, xix. 
He had been for the Indians an object of particular 
notice, on account of the long flowing hair which curled 
down on his shoulders, and which made it a very desirable 
Molp- Qayarre, Hist Louisiana, I. 427. 
4. The skin of the head of a noxious wild ani- 
mal. A bounty has sometimes been offered 
for wolves' scalps. 5. The head or skull of a 
whale exclusive of the lower jaw. 6. In lier., 
the skin of the head of a stag with the horns 
attached : a rare bearing. 
scalp 1 (skalp), v. t. [= F. scalper, scalp, > D. 
scalpereii = Q. slcalpiren = Dan. skalpere = Sw. 
skalpera; from the noun. The similarity of 
this verb with L. scalpere, cut, carve, scratch, 
etc. (see scalpel), is accidental.] 1. To deprive 
of the scalp ; remove the scalp of. The scalping 
of slain or captured enemies is a custom of the North 
American Indians. The scalp being grasped by the scalp- 
lock, a circular cut is made with the scalping-knife, and 
the skin is then forcibly torn off ; the operation requires 
but a few seconds at the hands of an expert. 
Hence 2. To skin or flay in general ; denude; 
lay bare ; specifically, to deprive of grass or turf. 
[U. 8.] 
The valley is very narrow, and the high buttes bound- 
ing it rise, sheer and barren, into scalped hill-peaks and 
naked knife-blade ridges. 
T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 655. 
Many a good in-fleld [for base-ball] has no turf on it, and 
is called a /scalped Held. St. Nicholas, XVII. 556. 
3. In milling: (a) To separate (the fuzzy growths 
at the ends of the berries of wheat or other 
grain) by attrition and screening, with or with- 
out the employment of aspirators. (6) To sepa- 
rate, after the first operation of the breaking- 
rolls (the broken wheat, semolina, and break- 
flour), and after each subsequent use of the 
breaking-rolls (making in some schemes of 
milling six separate operations) to treat (the 
products) in the same manner with sieves, 
bolts, or screens of different grades of fineness. 
4. To sell at less than official or recognized 
rates, by sharing the commission or profit with 
the purchaser, or by purchasing cheap and 
asking only a small advance: as, to scalp rail- 
way-tickets. [Colloq. or trade use.] 
A corporation like the Pennsylvania Railroad must pro- 
tect itself against loss through scalping by the ample pun- 
ishment for the crime which the laws of the State seem 
to provide for the scalper himself. 
The Nation, Oct. 5, 1882, p. 276. 
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gans or hair-like lancets contained in the pro- 
muscis of hemipterous insects. The upper 
pair of scalpella are homologous with mandi- 
bles, the lower pair with maxillse. 2. [cap.'] 
scammel 
with the fronds cut nearly or quite down to the rachis 
into alternate, blunt, broadly oblong or roundish lobes, 
which are coated on the lower surface with a dense cover- 
ing of small reddish-brown membranaceous scales (whence 
the name). See cettrach. Also called scale-fern and milt- 
.""."; L"'7'-J me name). Bee celtmch. Also cnlltcl scale-fern and milt- 
A genus ot thoracic cirripeds of the family waste. Scaly tetter, psoriasis. 
Pollicipcdidae, related to Iblu, and notable in Scaly-winged (ska'li-wingd), a. Same as scule- 
presenting in some species the sexes distinct, winged. 
in others hermaphrodites with complemeutal Scamblet (skam'bl), . [Also assibilated sham- 
males. ble (see shamble) ; < ME. *scamlen (in verbal n. 
males. 
scalper 1 (skal'per), . [< scalp* + -erl.] 1. One 
who scalps, or takes a scalp. 2. In milling, a 
machine or apparatus for scalping. ( ) A machine 
for removing the fuzz from the ends of grain, as wheat or 
rye, and for cleaning oft the surface-impurities accumu- 
lated in the fuzz, and the dirt which gathers in the creases 
of the berries, called crease-dirt. Such machines usually 
act by attrition upon the surfaces of the grain without 
crushing the latter. (6) A sieve, bolt, or screen used to 
separate different grades of broken wheat, semolina, and 
break-flour, and also to separate impurities and bran dur- 
ing various stages of roller-milling, (c) A machine for 
operating a sieve, bolt, or screen, or a combination of sift- 
ing or screening devices, for separating grades of Hour, 
semolina, broken wheat, break-flour, bran, and impuri- 
ties in the manufacture of wheat-, rye-, and buckwheat- 
flours. 
3. One who sells at less than official or recog- 
nized rates; specifically, a dealer in railway 
and other tickets who shares his commission 
with his customer, or who purchases unused 
tickets and coupons at cheap rates, and sells 
them at a slight advance, but for less than the 
official price ; a ticket-broker. [U.S.] 
scamling) ; origin uncertain. Cf. 'scampi and 
MMHfwrfl.J I. in trans. I. To stir about in an 
eager, confused way; scramble; struggle for 
place or possession. 
Thus sithe I have in my voyage suffred wracke with 
I lisses, and wringing-wett scumbled with life to the 
shore, stand from mee, Nausicaa, with all thy traine, till 
I wipe the blot from my forhead, and with sweete springs 
wash away the salt froth that cleaves to my soule. 
Gossan, Schoole of Abuse (1579). (Ualliwell. ) 
These court feasts are to us servitors court fasts such 
scamltling, such shift for to eate, and where to eate. 
Marston, The Fawne, ii. 1. 
2. To shift awkwardly; sprawl; be awkward; 
be without order or method. 
II. trans. 1. To mangle; maul. 
My wood was cut in patches, and other parts of it 
scanMed and cut before it was at Its growth. 
Mortimer, Husbandry. 
2. To scatter; squander; dissipate. 
Dr. Scambler had scumbled away the revenues thereof 
mciai price; aticKet-broker. [U.S.] [i. e., of Norwich). Fuller, Worthies, London, II. 367. 
With the eternal quarrel between railroads and scalpers 3. To collect together without order or method 
passengers have nothing to do Much more . . , )ei tauM>i after m 
urn, Oct. 5, 1882, p. 276. Holimhed, Chron., Ep. Ded. 
SCalper 2 t (skal'per), n. [< L. scalper (scalpr-), I cannot tell, but we have scambled up 
also scalprum, a knife, chopper, chisel (of shoe- More wealth by far than those that brag of faith, 
makers, surgeons, husbandmen,sculptors,etc.), Marlowe, Jew of Malta, i. i. 
< scalpere, cut, carve, engrave.] An instrument Scamblet (skam'bl), n. [(scumble, v.] A strug- 
of surgery, used in scraping foul and carious gle wHh others; a scramble. 
scamblert (skam'bler), n. [< scamble + 
[< "scalp- 1. One who scambles. 2. A bold intruder 
bones ; a raspatory. 
SCalping-iront (skal'ping-I"ern), n. 
ing, verbal n. of scalp'3, v., + iron.'] Same as 
scalper*. Miiisheu. A scambler, in its literal sense' is one'who gi 
SCalping-knife (skal'ping-nlf), . A knife used among his friends to get a dinner, by the Irish 
of North America for scalping C08herer - Steepen*, Note on Shakspere's Much 
uww.ir*U5 J^UAAVf yont 
by the Indians of 
upon the generosity or hospitality of others. 
A scambler, in its literal sense, is one who goes about 
called a 
Ado, v. 1. 
merica for scalping C08herer ; Sterns, Note on Shakspere's Much Ado, v. 1. 
their enemies. It is now usually a common Scamblingt (skam'bling), n. [Also scamling; 
as formerly a sharp verbal n. of scamble, v.] An irregular, hasty 
steel butcher's knife, but was formerly a sharp 
stone. 
scalping-tuft (skal'ping-tuft), n. A scalp-lock. 
His closely shaven head, on which no other hair than the 
well-known and chivalrous scalping-tuft w as preserved, 
was without ornament of any kind, with the exception of 
a solitary eagle's plume. 
J. F. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, iii. 
scalpless (skalp'les), a. [< scalpi + -less.] 1. 
Having no scalp, as a person who has recovered 
after being scalped. 2. Bald; bald-headed. 
A cap of soot upon the top of his scalpless skull. 
Kingsley, Alton Locke, vi. 
meal; a "scratch" meal. 
Other some have so costly and great dinners that they 
eat more at that one dinner than the poor man can get at 
three scamlinos on a day. 
Bp. PilHnffton, Works (Parker Soc.), p. 558. (Dames.) 
scamblingt (skam'bling), p. a. [Ppr. of scam- 
ble, r.] Scrambling; struggling; disorderly; 
without method or regularity. 
But that the scumbling and unquiet time 
Did push it out of farther question. 
Shale., Hen. V., L 1. 4. 
A fine old hall, but a scamKing house. Evelyn. 
5. In Amer. polit. slang, to destroy the politi- 
cal influence of, or punish for insubordination 
to party rule. 
scalp 2 (skalp), . [Also (Sc.) scaup; appar. 
connected with sealpl (D. schelp, a shell, scal- 
lop, etc.), but prob. not identical with it.] A 
bed of oysters or mussels. 
Spalp 3 t (skalp), e. t. [Found only in verbal n., 
m comp., scalping-iron ; < L. scalpere, cut, carve. 
Cf. scalper 1 *, scalpel.] To cut or scrape. See 
scalping-iron. 
scalpel (skal'pel), n. [< F. scalpel = Pr. sca- 
pel = Sp. escalpelo = Pg. escalpello = It. 
scarpello, < L. scalpeUum, a surgical knife, a 
scalpel, dim. of scalprum or scalper, a knife- 
see scalper^.] A small light knife, which may 
be held like a 
pen, used in 
anatomical dis- 
section and in 
surgical operations, having the back of the 
blade straight or nearly so, the edge more or 
less convex, and the point sharp. Such a knife 
s distinguished from a bistoury. The handle is light and 
thin, long enough to pass beyond the knuckles when the 
knife is held in its usual position, and commonly of bone, 
ivory, or ebony. A special heavy form of scalpel is called 
a cartilage-knife. 
scalpella, . Plural of scalpeUum, 1. 
scalpellar (skal'pe-lar), a. [< scalpeUum + 
-ar''.] Of or pertaining to the scalpella of 
hemipterans. 
SCalpelliform (skal-pel'i-fdrm), a. [< L. scal- 
peUum, a surgical knife (see scalpel), + forma, 
form.] In lot., having the form of the blade 
of a scalpel or a penknife. [Bare.] 
scalpeUum (skal-pel'nm), . [NL., < L. scal- 
pellnm, a surgical knife: see scalpel] 1 PI. 
scalpella (-a). One of the four filamentous or- 
scalp-lock (skalp'lok), n. A long lock or tuft Spambling-dayst (skam'bling-daz), n.pl. Days 
of hair left on the scalp by the North American i" Lent when no regular meals were provided, 
but every one scrambled and shifted for himself 
as best he could. Hiilliwell. 
vit no/At, ic-i-u VMJ. liUC OlJOjlJJ U\ LLLV i.1 UILU XVUltTrlUelll 
Indians, as an implied challenge to an enemy 
to take it if he can . 
Their " service of Meat and Drynk to be servyd upon 
the Scamh/ruje-Days in Lent Yerely, as to say, Mondays 
and Setterdays," was for "i Gentilmen and vj Childre of 
the Chapell iiij Measse." Babees ooi(E. E. T. S.), p. xciii. 
icamblingly (skam'bliug-li), ado. With eager 
struggling ; strugglingly. 
Scamblingly, catch that catch may. Cotgram. 
scamel. scammel (skam'el), . [Origin ob- 
scure.] A bar-tailed godwit. See godwit. [Lo- 
cal, Eng.] 
Sometimes I'll get thee 
Young xanu-ls from the rock. 
Shak., Tempest, U. 2. 176. 
Scammel, ... a name given to the female bird by the 
gunners of Blakeney. 
C. Swainson, British Birds (1885), p. 199. 
rifonn'iSr S o C f a a scamillus (ska-mil'us), n. ; pi. scamilU (-1). [L., 
S'one'haif'nan!- ^ m ' ^ scamllum t bench, stool, step, also a 
ii" ridge or balk left in plowing: see shamble 1 .] 
1. In Gr. arch., a part of a block of stone, as 
of the lower drum or the capital of a Doric 
column, made to pro- 
ject slightly by the 
beveling of the edge 
or edges of its bearing 
face, that the edges of 
Loosely on a snake-skin strung, 
In the smoke his scalp locks swung 
Grimly to and fro. 
Whittier, Bridal of Pennacook, ii. . - ^~ 
scalpriform (skal'pri-form), . [< L. scalprum, scamblingly (skam'bliug-li), ade 
a knife, chisel, + forma, form.] * ** *PMH.*. 
Chisel-shaped ; having the char- 
acter of a chisel-tooth ; truncate 
at the end and beveled there to a 
sharp edge : specifically said of 
the incisor teeth of rodents, and 
the similar teeth of a few other 
mammals. See chisel-tooth, and 
cut under Geomyidse. 
scalt. An obsolete or dialectal 
preterit and past participle of 
scald 1 . 
1. Covered with scales; pro- ralslze - 
vided with scales ; scaled ; squamate ; scutel- 
late. 
The scaly Dragon, beeing else too lowe 
For th' Elephant, vp a thick tree doth goe. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 6. 
2. Scale-like; of the nature of a scale; squa- 
mous. 3. Furfuraceous ; scarious; desqua- *a<;c, mau me euges 01 
mated; exfoliated; scabby. 4. In hot., com- tne exposed face or 
posed of scales lying over one another: as, a faces may not be liable 
scaly bulb; having scales scattered over it: as, *" " u: 1 "~~ "~~ ' 
a scaly stem. 5. Shabby; mean; stingy. 
[Slang.] scaly ant-eater or lizard, a pangolin. See 
Manis, 1. Scaly buds, buds, such as those of magnolia, 
hickory, lilac, etc., that are large and strong and provided 
with numerous scales, which serve to protect the tender 
parts in them from cold. Scaly epithelium, squamous 
ScamiUus in 
to chip when the block 
is placed in position. 
2. In Horn. arc)i., a 
second plinth or block 
under a statue, cohimn, or the like, to raise it, 
but not, like a pedestal, ornamented with any 
molding. 
u~.u 11UUI \yulu. O^CLl.V CplljllCllUlli, ^1 II:III1UU> , T. 
epithelium. Scaly fern, the fern Asplenium Ceterach, molding. 
a native of Europe. It is a small densely tufted species SCammel, . See scamel. 
