scalloped oak

Entom.: A geometer moth, Croc all is elinguaria . scalloped (or scolloped) oysters, s . pl . Oysters baked with bread-crumbs, cream, pepper, salt, nutmeg, and a little butter. The cooking was originally performed in a scallop-shell, and afterward in a dish called a scallop. scăl-ops, s. [Gr. skalops =the digger, i. e., the mole; skallo =to hoe.] Zoology : Shrew-mole; a genus of Talpide, with three species, ranging from Mexico to the great lakes on the east side of America, but on the west only to the north of Oregon. Snout slender and elongated; feet like those of the true mole, but the toes of the hind limbs are webbed. scălp (1), *scalpe, subst . [A doublet of scallop (q. v.); cf. O.Sw.skalpa sheath; Icel. skalpr .] 1. The head, the skull, the cranium. "And each scalp had a single long tuft of hair." Byron: Siege of Corinth, 16. 2. The outer covering or integument of the skull; hence, the skin of the head with the hair belonging to it, cut or torn off by North American Indians from their enemies as a trophy of victory. "They might as well have represented Washington brandishing a tomahawk, and girt with a string of scalps ."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xiii. 3. The summit, the top, the bare peak. "The snowy scalp of Ben Cruachan rose." -Macaulay : Hist. Eng ., ch. xiii. scalp-lock, s . A tuft of hair allowed to grow on the crown of the head by some of the North American Indians, to allow a victorious enemy a fair chance of taking the scalp. IMG:content-0989.jpg:[blocks in formation] carry a few human heads dangling at their saddle-bows, and accordingly they take the more portable scalp - lock as a trophy and remembrance of the slain enemy."-R. Brown : Peoples of the World , i. 71. scălp, (2), s. [Etym. doubtful.] A bed of oysters or mu els; a scaup. scălp, v . t . [SCALP (1), s . Prob. there is a confusion with Lat. scalpo to cut.] To deprive of the scalp or integument of the head. scăl-pěl, s . [Latin scalpel lum , dim in. of scal prum or scalper =a knife; scalpo to cut.] Surg.: A small knife used in operations and di ections. "Exploring with their scalpel the winding intricacies of vein and nerve."-G. H. Lewes: Aristotle , p. 162. scăl-pěl-li-form, a. [Latin scalpel lum (q. v.), and form a form.] Bot .: Shaped like the blade of a penknife placed vertically on a branch.