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, 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]
Scal"pel (skl"pl), 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 (sklp"r), n. 1. One who, or that which, scalps.