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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_102341" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_102341" /> == | ||
<p> (1): | <p> '''(1):''' (n.) The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (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. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (n.) [[A]] toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc. </p> <p> '''(4):''' (n.) The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine. </p> <p> '''(5):''' (n.) [[A]] former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat. </p> <p> '''(6):''' (n.) [[A]] tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser. </p> <p> '''(7):''' (n.) The notched scale of a wire micrometer. </p> <p> '''(8):''' (n.) The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb. </p> <p> '''(9):''' (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. </p> <p> '''(10):''' (n.) One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions. </p> <p> '''(11):''' (n.) The curling crest of a wave. </p> <p> '''(12):''' (n.) An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place. </p> <p> '''(13):''' (n.) The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked. </p> <p> '''(14):''' (n.) An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb. </p> <p> '''(15):''' (n.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves. </p> <p> '''(16):''' (n.) Alt. of Combe </p> <p> '''(17):''' (n.) [[A]] dry measure. See Coomb. </p> | ||
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Latest revision as of 03:00, 13 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
(2): (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.
(3): (n.) A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.
(4): (n.) The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
(5): (n.) A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
(6): (n.) A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
(7): (n.) The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
(8): (n.) The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
(9): (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.
(10): (n.) One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.
(11): (n.) The curling crest of a wave.
(12): (n.) An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
(13): (n.) The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.
(14): (n.) An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
(15): (n.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
(16): (n.) Alt. of Combe
(17): (n.) A dry measure. See Coomb.
