Comb /(kōm; 110)/

1. An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
2. An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
3. A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc. (Manuf. & Mech.)
4. 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. (Zool.)
5. The curling crest of a wave.
6. The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.

   When the bee doth leave her comb.

7. The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.

imp. & p. p. Combed; p. pr. & vb. n. Combing

1. 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.

   Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright.

1. To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves. (Naut.)

1. That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it.

   A gradual rise the shelving combe Displayed.

1. A dry measure. See Coomb.