Defn: To remove the skin of.
We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye]. J. S. Wells.
3. (Milling.)
Defn: To brush the hairs of fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling. Knight.
SCALP
Scalp, v. i.
Defn: 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]
SCALPEL Scal"pel, n. Etym: [L scalpellum, dim. of scalprum a knife, akin to scalpere to cut, carve, scrape: cf. F. scalpel.] (Surg.)
Defn: A small knife with a thin, keen blade, — used by surgeons, and in dissecting.
SCALPER
Scalper, n.
1. One who, or that which, scalps.
2. (Surg.)