• 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.