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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.

To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.

ieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges. [Written also combings.]

to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. See under Combing. Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright. Shak.

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

The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing. Earth flax (Min.), amianthus. -- Flax brake, a machine for removing the woody portion of flax from the fibrous. -- Flax comb, a hatchel, hackle, or heckle. -- Flax cotton, the fiber of flax, reduced by steeping in bicarbina…

A short or waste piece or knot of wool separated from the longer staple by combing; also, a similar piece or shred of waste silk.

Waste and knots of wool removed by the comb; combings.

The act of combing; the combing of the head.

oolen cloth. -- Wool comber. (a) One whose occupation is to comb wool. (b) A machine for combing wool. -- Wool grass (Bot.), a kind of bulrush (Scirpus Eriophorum) with numerous clustered woolly spikes. -- Wool scribbler. See Woolen scribbler, under Woolen, a. -- Wool sorter's disease (Med.), a disease, resembling…

as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper. Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool in thin, downy, translucent layers.