The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool.
That which is caught or collected with a comb, as loose, tangled hair.
Hair arranged to be worn on the head. The baldness, thinness, and . . . deformity of their hair is supplied by borders and combings. Jer. Taylor.
See Coamings. Combing machine (Textile Manuf.), a machine for combing wool, flax, cotton, etc., and separating the longer and more valuable fiber from the shorter. See also Carding machine, under Carding.
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