† sculpn.1
Obsolete.
1. An engraving or wood-cut used as an illustration in a book.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > an engraving > used as book-illustration
sculp1696
1696 J. Evelyn Let. 17 Aug. in Diary & Corr. (1852) III. 362 I do not say the Holland sculps are ill performed.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Sculp, a Cut, Print, or Engraved Picture; as A Book full of fine Sculps.
2. A piece of sculpture.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > a sculpture or carving
graving1382
carvingc1384
similitudea1450
piece1579
insculpturea1616
sculpture1616
draught1646
cut1658
cutting1787
sculpc1845
mushroom stone1957
c1845 J. Morris in J. H. Pollen Life & Lett. J. Morris (1896) 23 Two sculps in the marble tell the same tale.
1883 Daily 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.
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sculpn.2
/skʌlp/, U.S. /skəlp/ North American dialect.
1. In early or archaic use: a human scalp.
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society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > sign of victory > enemy's head, brain, or scalp
scalp1601
sculp1743
brain ball1841
shrunken head1875
tsantsa1923
1743 J. Isham Observ. 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.
1758 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1881) XVIII. 180 They obtained fifty-two Sculps and two Prisoners.
1804 J. Whitehouse Jrnl. 27 Sept. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1997) XI. 88 They took the 65 of the Mahars Sculps and had them hung on Small poles.
1845 W. G. Simms Wigwam & Cabin 1st Ser. 53 A pretty fellow..at his time of life to be looking after sculps of women and children.
1904 W. Churchill Crossing vi. 61 You damned Dutchmen..I wish the devils had every one of your fat sculps.
1921 J. Buchan Path of King xii. 242 Maybe the Indians have got his sculp.
2. The skin of a seal with the blubber attached.
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1840 J. B. Jukes Excurs. Newfoundland (1842) I. 273 The [seal-]skin in this state is called the ‘pelt’, and sometimes the ‘sculp’.
1895 Outing 27 23/2 The ‘sculp’ of the dog hood sometimes weighs six hundredweight.
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sculpv.1
/skʌlp/, U.S. /skəlp/ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > incising or intaglio > incise (marks or figures) [verb (transitive)]
writeeOE
gravec1275
raspc1400
insculp?a1475
insculpt1487
scrape1532
sculp?1533
engrave1542
enchase1579
incarve1596
engraven1605
trencha1616
scratch1644
style1864
lithograph1872
scribe1896
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Hiii v To graue or sculpe, grauer.
1638 G. Sandys Paraphr. Iob xix. 26 in Paraphr. Divine Poems Oh..that the tenor of my just complaint Were sculpt with steele on Rocks of Adamant!
1673 T. Blount World of Errors sig. A2 A pompous Frontispiece, wherein are sculped our two famous Universities.
a1695 A. Wood Surv. Antiq. City of Oxf. (1899) III. 170 Out of whose mouth on a scroule is this sculped: Sancta Trinitas [etc.].
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > engrave [verb (transitive)]
cut1600
gravea1631
point1662
engrave1667
sculp1683
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 114 [He] digs or Sculps out the Steel between the..Marks..on the Face of the Punch.
3.
a. To sculpture. Now chiefly colloquial or jocular.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > sculpt or carve [verb (transitive)]
behewc1314
entailc1394
chisel1517
to cut out1548
insculp1578
cut1600
sculpturea1684
sculp1784
sculpt1864
under-carve1904
1784 Sel. Fables Life Æsop 8 The Athenians..erected a noble statue..sculped by the famous Lysippus.
1887 R. L. Stevenson Lett. 21 Nov. St. Gaudens the sculptor sculping me.
b. intransitive or absol.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > sculpt or carve [verb (intransitive)]
carve1567
sculpt1864
sculp1889
1889 W. 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.
1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 26 Men who write, and paint, and sculp.
Derivatives
ˈsculping n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun]
engravery1566
gravery1601
engravement1604
engravening1645
graving1646
sculpture1661
sculping1683
engraving1697
engravure1716
re-engraving1772
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 115 The Letter-Cutter does not expect to perform this Digging or Sculping at one single Operation.
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sculpv.2
/skʌlp/, U.S. /skəlp/ North American dialect.
a. transitive. To scalp (a person) (now archaic); to skin (a seal).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] > scalp
scalp1676
sculp1758
1758 in 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.
1759 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1882) XIX. 188 [He] retook one of ye Prisoners and killed and sculpt one of ye Indians.
1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. 24 But as to shootin and sculpin Injins, that's a thing there is no bones made about.
1840 J. B. Jukes Excurs. Newfoundland (1842) I. 274 They skin, or, as they call it, ‘sculp’ them with a broad clasp-knife, called a sculping-knife.
1845 W. G. Simms Wigwam & Cabin 1st Ser. 44 They'll be sculped, every human of them, in their beds.
1845 W. G. Simms Wigwam & Cabin 1st Ser. 51 We heard of murders and sculpings on every side.
1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 175 Drawings exhibiting Sealers..Sculping young Seal.
1884 A. E. Sweet & J. A. Knox On Mexican Mustang xviii. 246 I'm a scout from the Far West, whar..the coyote sleeps in the deserted wigwams of the skulpt Indian.
1921 J. 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. figurative. To strip (a person) of all his possessions.
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1904 W. Churchill Crossing vi. 61 We've all been burned out and sculped up river.
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