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Comb   /koʊm/   Listen
Comb

noun
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.  Synonyms: cockscomb, coxcomb.
3.
Any of several tools for straightening fibers.
4.
Ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore.
5.
The act of drawing a comb through hair.  Synonym: combing.
verb
(past & past part. combed; pres. part. combing)
1.
Straighten with a comb.
2.
Search thoroughly.  Synonym: ransack.
3.
Smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb.  Synonyms: comb out, disentangle.  "Comb the wool"



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"Comb" Quotes from Famous Books



... tooth, tusk; spoke, cog, ratchet. crag, crest, arete [Fr.], cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille^; spire, pyramid, steeple. beard, chevaux de frise [Fr.], porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle; comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed^, cleavers, clivers^, goose, grass, hairif^, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel^, heckle. wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... and Seventh Centuries " " Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries " Gold and Silver, Thirteenth Century " " Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries " Silver, Eighth to Eleventh Centuries Cologne, View of, Sixteenth Century Comb in Ivory, Sixteenth Century Combat of a Knight with a Dog, Thirteenth Century Companion Carpenter, Fifteenth Century Cook, The, Sixteenth Century Coppersmith, The, Sixteenth Century Corn-threshing and Bread-making, Sixteenth Century Costume of Emperors at their Coronation since the Time of Charlemagne ...
— Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period • Paul Lacroix

... comb maker will furnish you forth as good as new; those grinders you brag of are not your own, ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... for a pig—think of that, now!" Nils laughed all the way downstairs, and quite embarrassed little Eric, who fell to scrubbing his face and hands at the tin basin. While he was patting his wet hair at the kitchen looking-glass, a heavy tread sounded on the stairs. The boy dropped his comb. "Gracious, there's Mother. We must have talked too long." He hurried out to the shed, slipped on his overalls, and disappeared ...
— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather

... out av his own wages, the wurthless vagabone!" Mr. Reardon had urged. "May he walk wit' a limp for the rest av his days—bad cess to him! I've a notion, Misther Schultz, that lad'll never comb his hair grey." ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne


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