1. (noun)comb a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
2. (noun)comb, cockscomb, coxcomb the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
3. (noun)comb any of several tools for straightening fibers
4. (noun)comb ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
5. (verb)comb, combing the act of drawing a comb through hair "his hair needed a comb"
6. (verb)comb straighten with a comb "comb your hair"
7. (verb)comb, ransack search thoroughly "They combed the area for the missing child"
8. (verb)comb, comb out, disentangle smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool"
Definitions of 'COMB'
Webster 1913 Dictionary
1. (noun)COMB an instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place
2. (noun)COMB an instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb
3. (noun)COMB a toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc
4. (noun)COMB the serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine
5. (noun)COMB a former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat
6. (noun)COMB a tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser
7. (noun)COMB the notched scale of a wire micrometer
8. (noun)COMB the collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb
9. (noun)COMB 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
10. (noun)COMB one of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions
11. (noun)COMB the curling crest of a wave
12. (noun)COMB the waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb
13. (noun)COMB the thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked
14. (noun)COMB to roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves
15. (noun)COMB alt. of Combe
16. (noun)COMB a dry measure. See Coomb
17. (verb)COMB 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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