combing

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• v. Present participle of comb.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• n. The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs.
• n.
• n. That which is caught or collected with a comb, as loose, tangled hair.
• n. Hair arranged to be worn on the head.
• n. See Coamings.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• n. The act of using a comb.
• n. The process of carding wool. See card, transitive verb, and carding-machine.
• n. The process of hackling flax.
• n. Graining on wood.
• n. That which is removed by combing or carding: generally in the plural: as, the combings of wool or hair.
• n. Hair combed over a bald part of the head.
• n. Same as coaming.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• n. the act of drawing a comb through hair