Comb: alternatives and connections

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthe…

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That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

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A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.

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A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel…

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To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.

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To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

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An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by…

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A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in currying a horse.

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An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called al…

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Same as Hackle.

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of Tease

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A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in currying a horse.

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Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.

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A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.

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An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called al…

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Same as Hackle.

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A cockroach.

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See Schlich.

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To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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of Comb

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One of the Ctenophora.

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One of the Gallinae or gallinaceous birds.

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One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which u…

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See Coxcomb.

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of Comb

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A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.

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To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement;…

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To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.

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