Comb (n.) An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place. |
Comb (n.) An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats |
Comb (n.) A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc. |
Comb (n.) The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine. |
Comb (n.) A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat. |
Comb (n.) A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe |
Comb (n.) The notched scale of a wire micrometer. |
Comb (n.) The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb. |
Comb (n.) 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. |
Comb (n.) One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions. |
Comb (n.) The curling crest of a wave. |
Comb (n.) The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc. |
Comb (n.) The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked. |
Comb (v. t.) To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb |
Comb (n.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave |
Comb (n.) Alt. of Combe |
Comb (n.) A dry measure. See Coomb. |
Comb-shaped (a.) Pectinate. |
Lady's comb () An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb. |
Weaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weave |
Weaving (n.) The act of one who, or that which, weaves |
Weaving (n.) An incessant motion of a horse's head, neck, and body, from side to side, fancied to resemble the motion of a hand weaver in throwing the shuttle. |