COMB
\kˈə͡ʊm], \kˈəʊm], \k_ˈəʊ_m]\
Definitions of COMB
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
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ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
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any of several tools for straightening fibers
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a fleshy and deeply serrated outgrowth atop the heads of certain birds especially domestic fowl
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search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child"
By Princeton University
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the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
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ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
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any of several tools for straightening fibers
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a fleshy and deeply serrated outgrowth atop the heads of certain birds especially domestic fowl
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search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
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A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.
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The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
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A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
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A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
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The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
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The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
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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.
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One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.
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The curling crest of a wave.
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The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
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The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.
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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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To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
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Alt. of Combe
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A dry measure. See Coomb.
By Oddity Software
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A toothed instrument to separate, adjust, or confine, the hair; the crest of a cock; the crest of a wave or hill; a honeycomb; a currycomb; an instrument for carding wool.
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To dress (the hair) with a toothed instrument; to cleanse, as with a comb; to search through.
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To roll over and break into foam; said of the crest of a wave.
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Comber.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A toothed instrument for separating and cleaning hair, wool, flax, etc.; the crest of a cock: the top or crest of a wave or of a hill: a cell for honey.
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To separate, arrange, or clean by means of a comb.
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A dry measure of four bushels.
By Daniel Lyons
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To dress with a comb.
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Toothed instrument for dressing the hair; crest of a cock; layer of cells made by bees.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To dress with a comb.
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To curl over and break into foam, as waves.
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A thin piece of horn, or the like, with teeth; for dressing the hair or holding it in place.
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The fleshy crest on the head of a fowl.
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The crest of a hill or wave.
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Honeycomb.
By James Champlin Fernald
