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See Comb.

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

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.

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

See Encumber. [Obs.]

Hindrance; molestation.[Obs.] Spenser.

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

See Encumber.

A genus of acanthopterygious fishes which includes the common mackerel.

Same as Scombroid.

The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. Combe.

The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love. Combe.

The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn. His hair cut in front like a young lady's bang. W. D. Howells.

, longirostris) and allied species. (b) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus). (c) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. (d) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).

See Buncombe.

The faculty of tracing effects to their causes. G. Combe.

A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero (S. regalis).

nt fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc. Chub mackerel (Zoöl.), a species of mackerel (Scomber colias) in some years found in abundance on the Atlantic coast, but absent in others; -- called also bull mackerel, thimble-eye, and big-eye mackerel. -- Chub sucker (Zoöl.), a fresh-water fish of the United States (Erimyz…