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The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool.

Without a comb or crest; as, a combless ceck.

A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads. Byron.

ets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun. [Obs.] Planets that are oft combust. Milton.

The quality of being combustible.

taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable. Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter. South.

Combustibility.

The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat. Combustion results is common cases from the mutual chemical action and reaction of the combustible and the oxygen of the atmosphere, whereby a new compound is formed. Ure. Supporter of combustion (Chem.),…

e more thoroughly mixed and burnt. (b) The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is compressed and ignited.

Inflammable. [Obs.] Shak.

A combining together. [R.]

A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber. [Amer.]

A scaraboid beetle; esp. the Typhæus vulgaris of Europe.

ada sheriff was bunkum . . . slavery speeches are all bunkum. Haliburton. To speak for Buncombe, to speak for mere show, or popularly.

A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.

See Coxcomb.

A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.

Befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited. -- Cox*comb"ic*al*ly, adv. Studded all over in coxcombical fashion with little brass nails. W. Irving.

like a coxcomb. [Obs.] "You coxcombly ass, you!" Beau & Fl.

The manners of a coxcomb; foppishness.