scalp /ˈskælp/
 (vt.)(vi.)剝頭皮頭皮


 scalp /ˈskælp/ 名詞
 頭皮


 Scalp n.  A bed of oysters or mussels. [Scot.]


 Scalp, n.
 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.
 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.


 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]

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 scalp
      n : the skin that covers the top of the head; "they wanted to
          take his scalp as a trophy"
      v 1: sell illegally, as on the black market
      2: remove the scalp of; "The enemies were scalped"