Synonyms:
comb
Meaning: a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
Synonyms:
comb, cockscomb, coxcomb
Meaning: the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
comb
Meaning: straighten with a comb; "comb your hair"
Synonyms:
comb, ransack
Meaning: search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child"
Synonyms:
comb, comb_out, disentangle
Meaning: smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool"
Usage examples
Do you like to comb up Sundays, and all that kind of foolishness?
With a sinking heart John saw the comb with a curling cloud of her brown hair among its teeth.
It was this fact which led the old observers to conclude that it was gathered for the purpose of building comb.
"He's a fine looking fellow," said another; "if he had only a comb and hair-grease, he'd take the shine off the gentlemen in white kids."
Thereupon his head he lifted, And he gazed aloft to heaven, And beheld a glorious rainbow; On the arch the maiden seated As she wove a golden fabric. As the silver comb resounded.
Let them bring me a comb here, or what they please, and curry this beard of mine, and if they get anything out of it that offends against cleanliness, let them clip me to the skin."
From her hand flew swift the shuttle, In her hands the reel was turning, And the copper shafts they clattered, And the silver comb resounded, As the maiden wove the fabric, And with silver interwove it.
But, from glimpses here and there, and from the purity and lightness of the air, I judged that we were on far higher ground than any we had yet traversed, the central comb, perhaps, of the mountain-system.
When the boy had looked the room over and seen all the faces, Scollops helped him to wash his hands and face, to comb his hair and to brush his clothes, and when this task was finished, the woolly doll said:
The gypsy began to comb her long brown locks, when suddenly she drew a pin from her stays, and, just as the titmouse digs its beak into the heads of linnets and larks, Titty dug the pin into the head of Zizi.