Skullnoun
(anatomy) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.
Scalpnoun
The top of the head; the skull.
Skullnoun
A symbol for death; death's-head
Scalpnoun
The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
Skullnoun
(figuratively) The mind or brain.
Scalpnoun
(historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
‘Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.’;
Skullnoun
A crust formed on the ladle, etc. by the partial cooling of molten metal.
Scalpnoun
(heraldry) The skin of the head of a stag with the horns attached.
Skullnoun
The crown of the headpiece in armour.
Scalpnoun
(figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
Skullnoun
(Scotland) A shallow bow-handled basket.
Scalpnoun
(Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.
Skullnoun
obsolete form of school
Scalpnoun
(figurative) The top; the summit.
Skullverb
To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.
Scalpverb
To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
Skullnoun
A school, company, or shoal.
‘A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him.’; ‘These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls.’;
Scalpverb
To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
‘Tickets were being scalped for $300.’;
Skullnoun
The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.
Scalpverb
(finance) On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
Skullnoun
The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.
‘Skulls that can not teach, and will not learn.’;
Scalpverb
To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
‘scalped ore’;
Skullnoun
A covering for the head; a skullcap.
‘Let me put on my skull first.’;
Scalpverb
(surgery) To remove the skin of.
Skullnoun
A sort of oar. See Scull.
Scalpverb
(transitive) To remove the grass from.
Skullnoun
the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates
Scalpverb
(transitive) To destroy the political influence of.
Skullnoun
a bone framework enclosing the brain of a vertebrate; the skeleton of a person's or animal's head
‘he broke his collar bone and fractured his skull’;
Scalpverb
(milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
Skullnoun
a person's head or brain
‘a skull crammed with too many thoughts’;
Scalpnoun
A bed of oysters or mussels.
Skullverb
hit (someone) on the head
‘my waking came in drugged stages—I had been skulled’;
Scalpnoun
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!’;
Skull
The skull is a bone structure that forms the head in vertebrates. It supports the structures of the face and provides a protective cavity for the brain.
Scalpnoun
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.
Scalpnoun
Fig.: The top; the summit.
Scalpverb
To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.
Scalpverb
To remove the skin of.
‘We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye].’;
Scalpverb
To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.
Scalpverb
To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; - said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account.
Scalpnoun
the skin that covers the top of the head;
‘they wanted to take his scalp as a trophy’;
Scalpverb
sell illegally, as on the black market
Scalpverb
remove the scalp of;
‘The enemies were scalped’;
Scalp
The scalp is the anatomical area bordered by the human face at the front, and by the neck at the sides and back.