Scalp

n. [Cf. Lat. scalpere, to cut, carve, scalprum, a sharp, cutting instrument.] That part of the integument of the head usually covered with hair; hence, the skin of the head, or a part of it, with the hair belonging to it, torn off, as by the Indian warriors of North America, as a token of victory over an enemy. By the bare scalp of Robin Hood’s fat friar, This fellow were a king for our wild faction. Shak.

[imp. & p. p. SCALPED (skălpt); p. pr. & vb. n. SCALPING.] To deprive of the scalp, or integuments of the head.