Scalp is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCALP in dictionary:

VERB:
• to remove the covering from the top of the skull
• take the scalp of (an enemy)
• punish severely
• resell (shares or tickets) at a large or quick profit
• To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.
• To remove the skin of.
• To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.
• To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account.
• sell illegally, as on the black market
• remove the scalp of
• cut off the scalp of
NOUN:
• the skin covering the head, excluding the face
• used with reference to the defeat of an opponent
• a bare rock projecting above surrounding water or vegetation.
• skin and hair on top of the head
• A bed of oysters or mussels.
• That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.
• 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.
• Fig.: The top; the summit.
• the skin that covers the top of the head
• the scalp with the hair belonging to it, cut or torn away from an enemy's head as a battle trophy, a former practice among American Indians.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to remove an upper part from

Words related to SCALP

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Words that contain SCALP

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How to use SCALP in a sentence

• His scalp was still smarting and his eyes watering with the pain as he pounded behind her.
• Word was sent to us to come and fetch the scalp of a Sioux Indian of our enemy.
• How he has saved his own scalp to this time is more nor I can tell, or himself neither, for that matter, I guess.
• I wondered where I could hide if they should climb through the window, and I felt that Georgia would never know what had become of me, if they should kill and scalp me.
• My hair was down and flying, and from the stinging of the scalp I managed to recollect a hand in the press of the entrance that had torn at my hair.
• A brisk skirmish followed, the Indians retreated, and Kenton got the coveted scalp.
• Soon an Indian stalked up to the horse, whereupon they killed him, and brought his head into camp, proclaiming that it should at least be worth the price of a wolf scalp.
• Then a thrill began at his scalp and went clear to his bare toes.
• The woman took the scalp, knife and coat to the lodge, and gave them to her husband.
• He may have been introduced by settlers who adopted Sumerian habits of life and shaved scalp and face.
• He pressed them to keep on, however, saying that there were Ottawa Indians in the forest, who might discover and scalp them if they lay out at night.
• The scalp which is to cause a general jubilee, on an appointed evening, is attached to the top of a long pole, planted in the earth at a suitable place.
• Both wounds were by now bleeding freely and his face was covered with blood from the scalp wound.
• Hats should be as light as possible and should not be so tight as to interfere with the circulation of the scalp.
• An Ointment may be made with this juice to stimulate the scalp so as to prevent falling out of the hair.
• Tobaidischinni had his body painted with the scalp knot in white in relative positions to the bows on Naiyenesgony.
• Over his breast, stained with strange figures, hung a chain of small bones, and the scalp locks of his enemies fringed his moccasins.
• He had scarcely engaged before he attempted a blind cut over the scalp.
• I saw one half-naked creature, awful in his paint, run up and strike a soldier full in the face with his fist, then dash out his brains with a death-maul and tear his scalp off.
• Many have still hair on the scalp, and some even beard.
• He was extremely bald, and he pushed his spectacles high up on his scalp.
• He shuddered again when he saw the hunter scalp his victims.
• With the idea that he would return to the spring to scalp the dead Indians, he went directly toward the big oak tree.
• Phillips was now confident that he should carry off the scalp of the fourth school-master before the evening was over.
• One showed a long, white scar across his scalp, where a bullet had just missed his brain.
• The first raid of the company resulted in one scalp and one captive, taken December 10, 1724, and carried to Boston.
• The Indians would give up buffalo meat for a human scalp.

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