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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Combing \Comb"ing\, n. 1. The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool. Note: The process of combing is used in straightening wool of long staple; short wool is carded. 2. pl a That which is caught or collected with a comb, as loose, tangled hair. b Hair arranged to be worn on the head. The baldness, thinness, and . . . deformity of their hair is supplied by borders and combings. --Jer. Taylor. c (Naut.) See {Coamings}. {Combing machine} (Textile Manuf.), a machine for combing wool, flax, cotton, etc., and separating the longer and more valuable fiber from the shorter. See also {Carding machine}, under {Carding}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Comb \Comb\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Combed}; p. pr & vb n. {Combing}.] 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}. Comb down his hair; look look! it stands upright. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: combing n : the act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a comb" [syn: {comb}]
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