COMB

An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.

An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.

A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.

The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.

A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.

A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.

The notched scale of a wire micrometer.

The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.

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.

One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.

The curling crest of a wave.

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. Shak.

The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.

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.

To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.

A dry measure. See Coomb.