GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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    Comb , n. [AS. camb; akin to Sw., Dan., & D. kam, Icel. kambr, G. kamm, Gr.  a grinder tooth, Skr. jambha tooth.]
    1. An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
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    2. An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
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    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. 
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    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.
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    5. The curling crest of a wave.
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    6. The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb. “A comb of honey.” 
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      When the bee doth leave her comb.
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    7. The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.
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    Comb, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Combed ; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
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    Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright.
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    Comb, v. i. [See Comb, n., 5.] (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, Combe , } n. [AS. comb, prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. cwm a dale, valley.] That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it. [Written also coombe.]
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    A gradual rise the shelving combe
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    Comb, n. A dry measure. See Coomb.
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    Coomb , n. [AS. cumb a liquid measure, perh. from LL. cumba boat, tomb of stone, fr. Gr.  hollow of a vessel, cup, boat, but cf. G. kumpf bowl.] A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter. [Written also comb.]
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