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.

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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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

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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.

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

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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.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)