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Webster 1913 Edition

Comb

Comb

(kōm; 110)
,
Noun.
[AS.
camb
; akin to Sw., Dan., & D.
kam
, Icel.
kambr
, G.
kamm
, Gr. [GREEK] 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.
4.
(Zool.)
(a)
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.
(b)
One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.
5.
The curling crest of a wave.
6.
The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
“A comb of honey.”
Wyclif.
When the bee doth leave her
comb
.
Shakespeare
7.
The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.

Comb

,
Verb.
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.
Shakespeare

Comb

,
Verb.
I.
[See
Comb
,
Noun.
, 5.]
(Naut.)
To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.

Comb

,
Noun.
A dry measure. See
Coomb
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Comb

COMB

,
Noun.
A valley between hills or mountains.

COMB

,
Noun.
b silent.
1.
An instrument, with teeth, for separating, cleansing and adjusting hair, wool, or flax. Also, an instrument of horn or shell, for keeping the hair in its place when dressed.
2.
The crest, caruncle or red fleshy tuft, growing on a cocks head; so called from its indentures which resemble the teeth of a comb.
3.
The substance in which bees lodge their honey, in small hexagonal cells.
4.
A dry measure of four bushels.

COMB

,
Verb.
T.
To separate, disentangle, cleanse, and adjust with a comb, as to comb hair; or to separate, cleanse and lay smooth and straight, as to comb wool.

COMB

,
Verb.
I.
In the language of seamen, to roll over, as the top of a wave; or to break with a white foam.

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