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Comb   /koʊm/   Listen
Comb

noun
1.
A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair.
2.
The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds.  Synonyms: cockscomb, coxcomb.
3.
Any of several tools for straightening fibers.
4.
Ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore.
5.
The act of drawing a comb through hair.  Synonym: combing.
verb
(past & past part. combed; pres. part. combing)
1.
Straighten with a comb.
2.
Search thoroughly.  Synonym: ransack.
3.
Smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb.  Synonyms: comb out, disentangle.  "Comb the wool"



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"Comb" Quotes from Famous Books



... mute; only now and then a carriage could be heard crossing the wooden bridge. The girl raised her eyes toward the sky; then slowly she took off her rings, the pendants in her ears, the comb and jewelled pins in her hair, and put them on the balustrade of the terrace; then she looked toward ...
— An Eagle Flight - A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
... betrayed to the artist, on this occasion, the deception the young man was practising. She had entered the room from her walk, warm and careless; her hair, than which none was more beautiful, had strayed on her shoulders, freed, from the confinement of the comb, and a lock was finely contrasted to the rich color of a cheek that almost burnt with the exercise and the excitement. Her dress, white as the first snow of the winter; her looks, as she now turned them on the face of the sleeper, and betrayed by their animation the success ...
— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper
... being stood upon a stool to say my part to the chemist! Such leisure as I had from my profession was spent in "minding" the younger children—an occupation in which I delighted. They all had very pretty hair, and I used to wash it and comb it out until it looked as fine and ...
— The Story of My Life - Recollections and Reflections • Ellen Terry
... on. The stout woman removed a shell comb from her back hair and composed herself for deeper slumber. Jessica presented to my lambent gaze a visage which besought unspoken sympathy, and mutely breathed a protest against travel in general ...
— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan
... Sundays, was held sacred to the girls. Then he put on a clean collar (which was a daring and outrageous defiance of authority, which allowed but two a week), and prepared to face consequences. The family brush and comb were kept in a small bag which hung on a nail beside the scratched and defaced old family looking-glass, and Paul was artistically at work upon his hair when his mother entered the kitchen. The excellent woman sat down to laugh, and Armstrong came in with his customary ...
— Despair's Last Journey • David Christie Murray


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