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Comb   /koʊm/   Listen
Comb

noun
1.
A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair.
2.
The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds.  Synonyms: cockscomb, coxcomb.
3.
Any of several tools for straightening fibers.
4.
Ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore.
5.
The act of drawing a comb through hair.  Synonym: combing.
verb
(past & past part. combed; pres. part. combing)
1.
Straighten with a comb.
2.
Search thoroughly.  Synonym: ransack.
3.
Smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb.  Synonyms: comb out, disentangle.  "Comb the wool"



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"Comb" Quotes from Famous Books



... table before which sat a young-faced, white-haired man, very industriously writing in a small account book; upon the table before him were a number of articles very neatly arranged, among which Ravenslee noticed a cheap wrist-watch, a hair-comb, a brooch, and a small chain purse. He was yet gazing at these and at the white-haired man, who, having nodded once to the Spider, continued to write so busily, when he was startled to hear a long-drawn, shuddering sigh. Turning suddenly sharp about, ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol
... details—the dead fire, the dangling receiver of the useless telephone, a little pearl-handled revolver lying in a far corner as if it had been flung there, an upset chair. Suddenly his gaze halted at the edge of the shattered door and a faint tremor shook his big body. A comb lay on the floor there—a single comb of tortoise-shell made for a woman's hair. But it was a comb he knew well. And as his eyes met Bud's, staring from the doorway at the strange scene, they were the ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
... wig, but it was one of the fussy kind, and made my head look as though guiltless of a comb or brush for many months. To beautify my complexion I smeared it over with soot, and when I regaled myself with a glance at our six by nine glass, I was satisfied that no living man could tell whether I was a dirty white man or ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes
... office they slipped on their office coats. Brauer took a comb from his pocket and began carefully to define the part in his already slick hair. ...
— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie
... his pride in his bees and his honey; hill farmers still keep large stocks. He brought her a slice of home-baked bread and a piece of comb. She took the comb in her white fingers, and pressed the liquid gold from the cells; the luscious sweetness gathered from a thousand flowers making her lips still sweeter. Uncle Bennet offered me a jar full to the brim: 'Dip your vinger ...
— Round About a Great Estate • Richard Jefferies


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