Definition of comb

• n. - An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
• n. - An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
• n. - A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.
• n. - The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
• n. - A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
• n. - A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
• n. - The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
• n. - The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
• 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.
• n. - One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.
• n. - The curling crest of a wave.
• n. - The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
• n. - The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.
• 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.
• n. - To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
• n. - Alt. of Combe
• n. - A dry measure. See Coomb.