Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The skin of a wolf's head, or a piece of it sufficient for identification, exhibited to claim the bounty paid for the killing of a wolf in some parts of the United States.
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Examples
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Questions of army and navy, postal communication, and foreign diplomacy, for the moment eclipsed the baser topics of estray laws or wolf-scalp bounties, and the little would-be Congress fully justified the reported sarcasm of one of her leading citizens that “the Palmetto State was too small for a republic and too large for a lunatic asylum.”
Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890
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Questions of army and navy, postal communication, and foreign diplomacy, for the moment eclipsed the baser topics of estray laws or wolf-scalp bounties, and the little would-be Congress fully justified the reported sarcasm of one of her leading citizens that "the Palmetto State was too small for a republic and too large for a lunatic asylum."
Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 John George Nicolay 1866
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