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Comb
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
(2):
(v. t.) To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. See under Combing.
(3):
(n.) A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.
(4):
(n.) The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
(5):
(n.) A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
(6):
(n.) A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
(7):
(n.) The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
(8):
(n.) The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
(9):
(n.) The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.
(10):
(n.) One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.
(11):
(n.) The curling crest of a wave.
(12):
(n.) An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
(13):
(n.) The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.
(14):
(n.) An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
(15):
(n.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
(16):
(n.) Alt. of Combe
(17):
(n.) A dry measure. See Coomb.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Comb'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/comb.html. 1828.
