\Scalp\ (sk[a^]lp), n. [Cf. {Scallop}.]
A bed of oysters or mussels. [Scot.]

\Scalp\, n. [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.) To remove the skin of.
         We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye]. --J. S.
                                               Wells.
3. (Milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat
   grains, in the process of high milling. --Knight.

\Scalp\, v. i.
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]