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▪ I. † sculp, n.1 Obs.
[f. sculp v.1]
1. An engraving or wood-cut used as an illustration in a book.
1696Evelyn Let. to Place 17 Aug., I do not say the Holland Sculps are ill perform'd; but [etc.]. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey). Sculp, a Cut, Print, or Engraved Picture; as A Book full of fine Sculps.
2. A piece of sculpture.
c1845J. Morris in Pollen Life & Lett. (1896) 23 Two sculps in the marble tell the same tale. 1883Daily News 18 Jan. 5/7 Perhaps no statue, except the unfortunates in Trafalgar-square, and the melancholy meeting of ‘sculps’ in Parliament-square, was more sharply criticised at the time of its erection.
▪ II. sculp, n.2 N. Amer. dial.|skʌlp|
[f. sculp v.2]
a. In early or arch. use, a human scalp.
b. The skin of a seal with the blubber attached.
1743J. Isham Observations on Hudsons Bay (1949) 93 They make an offering, putting a painted Stick up, some with a cross hanging a hatchet,..or Ice Chissel, or what Else they have on the top, with the sculp of their Enemies, when they go to Warr. 1758in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1881) XVIII. 180 They obtained fifty-two Sculps and two Prisoners. 1804Lewis & Clark Orig. Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1905) VII. 64 They took the 65 of the Mahars sculps and had them hung on Small poles. 1840Jukes Excurs. Newfoundld. (1842) I. 273 The [seal-]skin in this state is called the ‘pelt’, and sometimes the ‘sculp’. 1845W. G. Simms Wigwam & Cabin 1st Ser. 53 A pretty fellow..at his time of life to be looking after sculps of women and children. 1895Outing (U.S.) XXVII. 23/2 The ‘sculp’ of the dog hood sometimes weighs six hundredweight. 1904W. Churchill Crossing vi. 61 You damned Dutchmen..I wish the devils had every one of your fat sculps. 1921J. Buchan Path of King xii. 242 Maybe the Indians have got his sculp.
▪ III. sculp, v.1|skʌlp|
[f. L. sculp-ĕre to carve.]
†1. trans. To carve or engrave (upon something).
c1535G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 947 To grave or sculpe, grauer. 1638Sandys Paraphr. Job xix. 26 Oh..that the tenor of my just complaint Were sculpt with steele on Rocks of Adamant! 1673Blount World of Errors A 2, A pompous Frontispiece, wherein are sculped our two famous Universities. a1695Wood City of Oxford (O.H.S.) III. 170 Out of whose mouth on a scroule is this sculped: Sancta Trinitas [etc.].
†2. To cut out with a graving tool. Obs.
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xiii. §4 [He] digs or Sculps out the Steel between the..Marks..on the Face of the Punch.
3. To sculpture. Now chiefly colloq. or jocular.
1784Sel. Fables Life æsop 8 The Athenians..erected a noble statue..sculped by the famous Lysippus. 1887Stevenson Lett. 21 Nov., St. Gaudens the sculptor sculping me.
b. intr. or absol.
1889W. E. Norris Miss Shafto (1890) 36, I wouldn't for the world deny that you can sculp or sculpt, or whatever the proper word is. 1893Kipling Many Invent. 26 Men who write, and paint, and sculp.
Hence ˈsculping vbl. n.
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xiii. §4 The Letter-Cutter does not expect to perform this Digging or Sculping at one single Operation.
▪ IV. sculp, v.2 N. Amer. dial.|skʌlp|
[Cf. scalp v.]
a. trans. To scalp (a person) (now arch.); to skin (a seal).
1758in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1881) XVIII. 109 Taring his Nails out by ye Roots, Sculping alive and such like torments, they wou'd shout and yell. 1759in Ibid. (1882) XIX. 188 [He] retook one of ye Prisoners and killed and sculpt one of ye Indians. 1834W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in New York I. 24 But as to shootin and sculpin Injins, that's a thing there is no bones made about. 1840Jukes Excurs. Newfoundld. (1842) I. 274 They skin, or, as they call it, ‘sculp’ them with a broad clasp-knife, called a sculping-knife. 1845W. G. Simms Wigwam & Cabin 1st Ser. 44 They'll be sculped, every human of them, in their beds. Ibid. 51 We heard of murders and sculpings on every side. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4) 175 Drawings exhibiting Sealers..Sculping young Seal. 1884Sweet & Knox On Mexican Mustang through Texas xviii. 246 I'm a scout from the Far West, whar..the coyote sleeps in the deserted wigwams of the skulpt Indian. 1921J. Buchan Path of King xii. 243 The Shawnees cotched me and Jim... They'd ha' sculped us if it hadn't been for Jim.
b. fig. To strip (a person) of all his possessions.
1904W. Churchill Crossing vi. 61 We've all been burned out and sculped up river. |