scalping iron

The same as SCALPER, 2 (q. v.). scalping-knife, s. The knife used by the North American Indians in scalping their enemies. †scălp-le , a. [Eng. scalp ; -le .] Having no scalp; bald. "The top of his scalple skull."-C. Kingsley: Alton A. As pa. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective: scăl-pri-form, a. [ Lat.scalprum =a knife, and form a form, shape.] 1. Ord. Lang .: Chisel-shaped. 2. Compar . Anat .: A term applied to the chisel "The wooden heel may raise the dancer's bound, And with the scallop'd top his head be crowned." Gay: Trivia, i. 2. Furnished with a scallop; made or done in a scallop. grouped under the name Scalprisdentata; but these teeth, though common to all the Rodent i a, are not confined to them; they are present in the Wombat, the genus Cheiromys, and in many of the Soricide. scăl-prům, s . [Lat. a knife, from scalpo =to cut.] 3. Bearing a scallop as a heraldic bearing. "It may be known, that Monteth was a gentleman with ning; or removing the roughne from the edges of a scalloped coat."- King: Art of Cookery. scalloped hazel, s. Entom.: A geometer moth, Odontopera bident at a . scalloped hook-tip, subst. A cuspidate moth, Platypteryx lacertula .