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Comb   /koʊm/   Listen
noun
Comb  n.  
1.
An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
2.
An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
3.
(Manuf. & Mech.)
(a)
A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.
(b)
The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
(c)
A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
(d)
A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
(e)
The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
(f)
The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
4.
(Zool.)
(a)
The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.
(b)
One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.
5.
The curling crest of a wave.
6.
The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb. "A comb of honey." "When the bee doth leave her comb."
7.
The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.


Combe, Comb  n.  (Written also coombe)  That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it. "A gradual rise the shelving combe Displayed."


Comb  n.  A dry measure. See Coomb.


verb
Comb  v. t.  (past & past part. combed; pres. part. combing)  To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. See under Combing. "Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright."


Comb  v. i.  (Naut.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.





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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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