<noun.body> they wanted to take his scalp as a trophy [ verb ]
sell illegally, as on the black market
<verb.possession>
remove the scalp of
<verb.change> The enemies were scalped
Scalp \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 \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]
Scalp \Scalp\ (sk[a^]lp), n. [Cf. {Scallop}.] A bed of oysters or mussels. [Scot.]
Scalp \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.
After the box office sold out, a couple dozen Soviets began offering to scalp their seats for 25 rubles each.
Bates' wife, Adria Bates, 40, a teacher aide at the school, suffered gunshot wounds to the scalp and back.
Ms. Sawaya told a news conference at a meeting of the Society for Investigative Dermatology that the discovery was made after she was able to separate out cells from scalp plugs from men at different stages of hair loss.
He said that typically the patient would be placed under general or local anesthestia and that an incision would be made through the scalp to the skull.
Researchers had previously suggested the drug stimulated the flow of blood to the scalp and hair roots, thereby promoting growth.
A water stoppage that took place about 30 minutes earlier than announced left a man with a burned scalp.
Her condition is an unusual affliction of the scalp, causing hair loss, itching and pain.
The skull was discarded, and the scalp was sewn up into a pouch, with the neck left open. Hot sand was poured in again and again until the skin contracted.
It involves a thickening and scaling of the skin, usually in the areas of the scalp, elbows, knees, back and buttocks.
"Hair grows about 1 centimeter per month, so we can tell if someone stopped the cocaine a couple of months ago _ the new hair near the scalp will not have the cocaine anymore," Koren said.
At its top is a human scalp.
To shrink heads, the Jivarans first removed the skin from the skull by slitting the scalp up the back and peeling it away.
"He kept saying, `Be sure to cut close to the scalp, so we get a good test,"' Ms. Hansen said.
When the scalp was ready, the surgeons removed a plate of bone from the right side of his head and split it longitudinally.
He only started shooting." Zahdeh was shot five times and had wounds in the shoulders, left leg and scalp.
This week it claimed a bigger scalp - that of armed forces chief of staff and marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Peter Harding. In between there has been a spate of these so-called scandals.
Cyoctol blocks the sites on the walls of the scalp cells at which the male hormone testosterone attaches to cause male pattern baldness.
Balding men who used a solution of Cyoctol had 12 percent more hair on a test patch of scalp than they had a year earlier, the Strick study showed.
A human scalp is at one end.
To prove his point, he scoops up several locks he has just trimmed from this reporter's scalp.
While much of the background is obviously based on recent events in Eastern Europe, the Klingon chancellor's daughter, Azetbur (Rosana DeSoto), looks like Benazir Bhutto with a scalp condition.
Mr. Peterpaul's price for cooperation: Mr. Wolf's scalp.
Though horrified, the woman's co-workers had enough presence to preserve the scalp.
No rugs get on my scalp.
FDA approval means Upjohn can now begin to manufacture and market topical minoxidil as a liquid to be rubbed or sprayed onto the scalp.
As an anti-balding drug, it is applied externally to the scalp.
Rosenfeld's lie detector picks up brain-wave activity through electrodes attached to the scalp, amplifying the signals and feeding them into a computer, which coordinates the information and displays it on a video screen.
With Don Regan's scalp on the belt over Iranamok, the next target was, of course, the president.
He is inclined to scratch at his scalp as an aid to rumination.
Endara, who suffered a scalp wound that took eight stitches to close, was spending the night in Paidilla Hospital, according to his wife, but the hospital said he was not there.