scalp lock (skalplok)

A long lock or tuft of hair left on the scalp by the North American Indians, as an implied challenge to an enemy to take it if he can. Loosely on a snake-skin strung, In the smoke his scalp - locks swung Grimly to and fro. Whittier, Bridal of Penna cook, ii. scammel with the fronds cut nearly or quite down to the rachis into alternate, blunt, broadly oblong or roundish lobes, which are coated on the lower surface with a dense cover ing of small reddish-brown membranaceous scales (whence the name). See ceterach. Also called scale - fern and mill waste. - Scaly tetter, psoriasis. scaly-winged (ska'li-wingd), a. Same as scale winged. scamblet (skam'bl), v. [Also a ibilated sham ble (see shamble ); Thus sithe I have in my voyage suffred wracke with Uli es, and wringing-wett scambled with life to the shore, stand from mee, Nausicaä, with all thy traine, till I wipe the blot from my for head, and with sweete springs wash away the salt froth that cleaves to my soule. Go on, Schoole of Abuse (1579). ( Hall i well .) These court feasts are to us servitors court fasts-such Marston, The Fawne, ii. 1. scambling, such shift for to eate, and where to eate 2. To shift awkwardly; sprawl; be awkward; be without order or method. II. trans. 1. To mangle; maul. My wood was cut in patches, and other parts of it Mortimer, Husbandry. scambled and cut before it was at its growth. 2. To scatter; squander; di ipate. Dr. Scambler had scambled away the revenues thereof [i. e., of Norwich]. Fuller , Worthies, London, II. 357. 3. To collect together without order or method. Much more being scambled vp after this manner. Holinshed, Chron., Ep. Ded. I cannot tell, but we have scambled up More wealth by far than those that brag of faith. Marlowe, Jew of Malta, i. 1. scamblet (skam'bl), n. [ scamble + -er1.] 1. One who scambles.-2. A bold intruder upon the generosity or hospitality of others. A scambler , in its literal sense, is one who goes about among his friends to get a dinner, by the Irish called a cosherer. Steevens , Note on Shakspere's Much Ado, v. 1,