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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.
Scalpel
Scalpel Scal"pel (sk[a^]l"p[e^]l), n. [L. scalpellum, dim. of scalprum a knife, akin to scalpere to cut, carve, scrape: cf. F. scalpel.] (Surg.) A small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.
Scalper
Scalper Scalper (sk[a^]lp"[~e]r), n. 1. One who, or that which, scalps. 2. (Surg.) Same as Scalping iron, under Scalping. 3. A broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market. [Cant] 4. A person who buys and sells the unused parts of railroad tickets. [Cant]

Meaning of Scalpe from wikipedia

- him he had killed a miller an English man at Narragansett and brought his scalpe to them." On December 15, 1675, after peace negotiations failed between...
- though men should gesse the bewty of one longe before departed, by her scalpe taken out of the charnel house: for now is she old lene, withered & dried...