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

Pectinate.

spring that issues into it. [Written also coombe.] Buckland. A gradual rise the shelving combe Displayed. Southey.

To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.

Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments.

One who engages in combat. "The mighty combatants." Milton. A controversy which long survived the original combatants. Macaulay

One who combats. Sherwood.

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The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.

In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.

A tooth of a wool comb. [Written also combrouch.]

See Comb.

One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.

Capable of combinding; consistent with. [R.] M. Arnold. -- Com*bin"a*ble*ness, n.

United; joined; betrothed. [R.]

The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making new compounds by new combinations. Boyle. A solemn combination shall be made Of our dear souls. Shak.

unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind. Dr. H. More. And all combined, save what thou must combine By holy marriage. Shak. Earthly sounds, though sweet and well combined. Cowper.

United closely; confederated; chemically united.

; jointly.

One who, or that which, combines.