Hypertext Webster Gateway: "combing"

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

Combing \Comb"ing\, n.
1. The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs;
as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool.

Note: The process of combing is used in straightening wool of
long staple; short wool is carded.

2. pl.
(a) That which is caught or collected with a comb, as
loose, tangled hair.
(b) Hair arranged to be worn on the head.

The baldness, thinness, and . . . deformity of
their hair is supplied by borders and combings.
--Jer. Taylor.
(c) (Naut.) See {Coamings}.

{Combing machine} (Textile Manuf.), a machine for combing
wool, flax, cotton, etc., and separating the longer and
more valuable fiber from the shorter. See also {Carding
machine}, under {Carding}.

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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

combing
n : the act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a
comb" [syn: {comb}]

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