Word Meanings - COMB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. A toothed instrument used

Additional info about word: COMB

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. A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc. The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine. A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat. A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser. The notched scale of a wire micrometer. The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb. 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. One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions. 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. "A comb of honey." Wyclif. When the bee doth leave her comb. Shak. 7. The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.

Related words: (words related to COMB)

• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• STRAIGHTENER
  One who, or that which, straightens.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• TOOTHSHELL
  Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• TOOTHING
  Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order that they may be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up. Toothing plane, a plane of which the iron is formed into a series of small teeth, for the purpose of
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• TOOTHBACK
  Any notodontian.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• KEEP
  k, AS.c to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. 1. To care; to desire. I kepe not of armes for to yelp . Chaucer. 2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to
• INSTRUMENTALITY
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
• SAFE-KEEPING
  The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
• OUTKEEPER
  An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• INNKEEPER
  An innholder.
• MISADJUSTMENT
  Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• UNTOOTH
  To take out the teeth of. Cowper.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like