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A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in curryng a horse.

See Encumber. [Obs.]

Hindrance; molestation.[Obs.] Spenser.

f iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb. Honeycomb moth (Zoöl.), the wax moth. -- Honeycomb stomach. (Anat.) See Reticulum.

Formed or perforated like a honeycomb. Each bastion was honeycombed with casements. Motley.

Out of the combat; disabled from fighting.

See Encumber.

To be incapable of combining; to disagree; to differ. [Obs.] Milton.

The quality of being incombustible.

Not combustible; not capable of being burned, decomposed, or consumed by fire; uninflammable; as, asbestus is an incombustible substance; carbon dioxide is an incombustible gas. Incombustible cloth, a tissue of amianthus or asbestus; also, a fabric imbued with an incombustible substance. -- In`com*bus"ti*ble*ness, n.…

Combat. [Obs.] Daniel.

Designating, or pertaining to, any engine (called an Internal- combustion engine) in which the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder, as by the explosion of a gas, and not in a separate chamber, as in a steam- engine boiler. The gas used may be a fixed gas, or one deriv…

plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb.

Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy.…

Combination a second or additional time.

To combine again.

A genus of acanthopterygious fishes which includes the common mackerel.

Same as Scombroid.

A division of fishes including the mackerels, tunnies, and allied fishes.

Any fish of the family Scombridæ, of which the mackerel (Scomber) is the type.