comb

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But honey without the comb is the perfume without the rose,--it is sweet merely, and soon degenerates into candy.

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  1. noun A thin toothed strip, as of plastic, used to smooth, arrange, or fasten the hair.
  2. noun An implement, such as a card for dressing and cleansing wool or other fiber, that resembles a hair comb in shape or use.
  3. noun A currycomb.
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  • "He gets a clipper over-comb, and don't square it in back," she tells one of her assistants, all of whom are also women. —  News from www.rep-am.com
  • King proclaims that his comb is the color of his blood while Clover argued that King's comb was painted with red barn paint. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • A place where every single follicle has purpose and your comb is your best friend. —  Lifelounge.com - Daily Goodness | news
  • After transferring all of the fibers from the stationary comb to your working comb, and removing any waste left behind on the stationary comb (neps, jumbles of fibers caught between the tines, etc), turn the stationary comb upright / perpendicular to the worksurface. —  sock prØn.
  • In other words, this thread about fanbase, about Raider "Nation" is about as useful as a comb is to Al, and his Fonzie "do". —  MVN
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comb:   combed ·  combing
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  1. Middle English, from Old English; see gembh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English comb, earlier camb, a comb, crest (of a cock, a hill, a dike, etc.), also honeycomb, from Anglo-Saxon camb, a comb, crest (of a helmet, a hat, etc.), also a honeycomb, = Old Saxon camb = Middle Dutch kamme, Dutch kam = Old High German chamb, Middle High German kam, kamp, German kamm = Icelandic kambr = Norwegian kamb = Swedish Danish kam, a comb, crest, etc. (Danish and G. also a cam: see cam), literally a ‘toothed’ implement, = Greek γόμφος, a peg, bolt, style (orig. tooth?, later γομφίος, a grinder-tooth, the tooth of a key); cf. γαμφαι, γαμφηλαί, plural, the jaws, = Sanskrit jambha = Old Bulgarian zabu, tooth. See cam, a doublet of comb.
  2. from comb, n. The old verb is kemb, q. v.
  3. Also written coomb; from Middle English *comb (?), from Anglo-Saxon cumb, a vessel of a certain capacity (used for liquids), = Middle Low German kump, Low German kump, also kumpen (later G. kump, kumpen) = Old High German chumph, Middle High German kumph, komph, kumpf, German kumpf, masculine, a hollow vessel, a basin, bowl, trough, from Middle Latin *cumbus, *cumpus, cimpus, a basin, bowl (cf. cumba, a bowl (a trough?), a boat, a tomb of stone: see catacomb), from Greek κύμβος, a hollow vessel, cup, basin, κύμβη, a drinking-vessel, cup, bowl, boat (see cymbal), = Sanskrit kumbha, a pot. Cf. cup.
 

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