Comb
English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word Comb
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1 n.
An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
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2 n.
An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
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3 n.
A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.
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4 n.
The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
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5 n.
A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
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6 n.
A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
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7 n.
The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
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8 n.
The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
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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.
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10 n.
One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.
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11 n.
The curling crest of a wave.
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12 n.
The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
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13 n.
The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.
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14 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.
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15 n.
To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
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16 n.
Alt. of Combe
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17 n.
A dry measure. See Coomb.
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18 n.
An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
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19 n.
An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
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20 n.
A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.
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21 n.
The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
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22 n.
A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
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23 n.
A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
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24 n.
The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
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25 n.
The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
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26 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.
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27 n.
One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.
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28 n.
The curling crest of a wave.
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29 n.
The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
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30 n.
The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.
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31 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.
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32 n.
To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
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33 n.
Alt. of Combe
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34 n.
A dry measure. See Coomb.