Scallop

skoKlup, n. A marine shell-fish or bivalve mollusk, often used for food: the shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land a curving of the edge of anything, like the segment of a circle a kind of dish for baking oysters in. — v. [scalloped (-lupt), -loping.] To mark „ „ „ or cut the edge or border bcallop Shell. of int0 segments of circles. eve, term In, Ice 5dd, tone, 6r 527 SCALPEL 509 [ME. skalop. OF. escalo/.e. OD. schelpe, a shell, G. "vkelfe, a husk; scale. shell, scalp. — Scalloped, -lupt, a. Made or done with or in a scallop; having the edge or border cut or marked with segments of circles.— Scalloped oysters. {Cookery. Oysters baked with crumbs of bread strewed over the surface: this was, at done in scallop shells, and afterwards in a dish called a scallop. — Scalp, skalp, n. That part of the integument of the head usually covered with hair; the skin of the head, or a part of with the hair belonging to torn off, as by Indian warriors, as a token of victory over an enemy. — v. [scalped (skalpt), scalping.] To deprive of the scalp, or integuments of the head. [Samo as scallop, in sense of shell, skull; scale, dish.] Scalpel. skaKpel, n. {Sura.) A knife used in anatomical di ections and surgical operations. [L. scalpel dim. of scalprum or scalper, a knife, scalpere, to cut. carve; sharp.} — Scalp'er, Scalp'ing i'ron, n. (Surg.) An instrument used in scraping foul and carious bones. Scaly. See under Scale, a dish. Scambie, etc. See under Scamp.