Word Meanings - COMBER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave.

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• COMBER
  1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave.
• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• COMBUST
  So near the sun as to be obscured or eclipsed by his light, as the moon or planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun. Planets that are oft combust. Milton. (more info) com- + burere , of uncertian origin; cf. bustum
• COMBUSTIOUS
  Inflammable. Shak.
• COMBAT
  To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.
• OCCUPATION
  1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
• COMBATTANT
  In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.
• COMBUSTIBILITY
  The quality of being combustible.
• CURLY
  Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
• COMBUSTION CHAMBER
  A space over, or in front of , a boiler furnace where the gases from the fire become more thoroughly mixed and burnt. The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is compressed and ignited.
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• COMBINE
  1. To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind.
• 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
• COMBATABLE
  Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments.
• COMBUSTION
  The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat. Combustion results is common cases from the mutual chemical action and reaction of the combustible and the oxygen of the atmosphere,
• COMBBROACH
  A tooth of a wool comb.
• COMBATIVENESS
  A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition. (more info) 1. The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.
• COMBUSTIBLE
  1. Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable. Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter. South. 2. Ea Arnold was a combustible character. W. Irving.
• COMBATANT
  Contending; disposed to contend. B. Jonson.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• ENCOMBERMENT
  Hindrance; molestation. Spenser.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• INCOMBUSTIBLE
  Not combustible; not capable of being burned, decomposed, or consumed by fire; uninflammable; as, asbestus is an incombustible substance; carbon dioxide is an incombustible gas. Incombustible cloth, a tissue of amianthus or asbestus; also, a fabric
• INCOMBER
  See ENCUMBER
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• INTERCOMBAT
  Combat. Daniel.