Hypertext Webster Gateway: "comb"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Comb \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}.

Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright.
--Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Comb \Comb\ (?; 110), 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.

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Comb \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Comb \Comb\, Combe \Combe\ (? or ?), 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}.] --Buckland.

A gradual rise the shelving combe Displayed. --Southey.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Comb \Comb\, n.
A dry measure. See {Coomb}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Coomb \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}.]

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

comb
n 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 [syn: {cockscomb}, {coxcomb}]
3: a fleshy and deeply serrated outgrowth atop the heads of
certain birds especially domestic fowl
4: any of several tools for straightening fibers
5: ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
6: the act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a
comb" [syn: {combing}]
v 1: straighten with a comb; "comb your hair"; "comb the wool"
2: search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing
child" [syn: {ransack}]
3: of hair [syn: {comb out}, {disentangle}]


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