an instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.-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.-the curling crest of a wave.-the waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.-the thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.-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.-to roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.-alt. of combe-a dry measure. see coomb.