单词 | comb |
释义 | combn. 1. a. A strip of wood, bone, horn, metal, etc., with indentations forming a series of teeth, or with teeth inserted, along one or both edges; used for disentangling, cleaning, and arranging the hair, and for like purposes; also, in ornamental forms, worn by women to keep the hair in place. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [noun] > honeycomb comba700 honeycombOE werke1598 virgin comb1639 sugar-bag1764 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > comb comba700 pocket-tortoise1687 whisk-comb1688 dressing comb1782 tail comb1782 rake-comb1790 reding comb1795 fine-tooth comb1852 hackle1903 rat-tail comb1937 rake1966 Afro pick1971 pick1972 detangler1984 a700 Epinal Gloss. 825 Pecten, camb. c1330 Florice & Bl. (1857) 552 The thridde [maiden] scholde bringge comb and mirour To seruen him with gret honour. c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame i. 136 Her combe to kembe her hed. 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 15 My tablees of ivory with the combe and a peyre spectaclys. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 63 Bedys combys gyrdyllys & knyfys. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium II. iii. ii. Rule 5 Q. 4 Clemens Alexandrinus is as severe against old men that with black lead combes put a lie upon their heads. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 113. ⁋8 Her mistress had turned her out at night for breaking six teeth in a tortoise-shell comb. 1803 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw xxx Marshall having fixed the last pearl-comb in her mistress's beautiful hair. 1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. ii. vi. 300 A bronze fibula of extremely rude form..and a bronze comb. b. An instrument for currying horses, consisting of a series of such strips of metal, with short teeth, placed parallel in a frame. Usually horse comb, curry-comb n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > grooming of horses > grooming instruments horse-comba1100 wisp1362 combc1440 mane-comb1564 curry-comb1573 scraper1581 rubber1598 teaseler1607 French brush1655 sweating-iron1753 dandy-brush1845 groomera1884 sweat-scraper1908 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 88 Combe of curraynge, or horse combe, strigilis. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. vii. f. 128 Almohaza, that is, a horse combe. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 221 Currycomb and brush, mane-comb. c. humorously. †Alman comb: see quot. crab-tree comb: a cudgel (as applied to the head). Obsolete. (Cf. comb v.1 3.) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] sowelc893 treec893 cudgelc897 stinga900 bat?c1225 sticka1275 clubc1275 truncheon14.. bourdonc1325 bastona1400 warderera1400 plantc1400 kibble1411 playloomc1440 hurlbatc1450 ploykc1450 rung1491 libberlac1500 waster1533 batonc1550 macana1555 libbet1562 bastinado1574 crab-tree comb1593 tomahawkc1612 billeta1616 wiper1622 batoon1637 gibbeta1640 crab-bat1647 kibbo1688 Indian club1694 batterdasher1696 crab-stick1703 bloodwipea1705 bludgeon1730 kierie1731 oaken towel1739 crab1740 shillelagh1772 knobstick1783 pogamogganc1788 whirlbat1791 nulla-nulla1798 waddy1800 kevel1807 supple1815 mere1820 hurlet1825 knobkerrie1826 blackthorn1829 bastera1833 twig1842 leangle1845 alpeen1847 banger1849 billy1856 thwack-stave1857 clump1868 cosh1869 nulla1878 sap1899 waddy1899 blunt instrument1923 1593 Bacchus Bountie in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 269 Which haue had their heads smoothed well with a crabtree combe. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxi. 90 He combed his head with an Alman combe, which is the foure fingers and the thumb. d. figurative. The action or process of ‘combing out’ (see comb v.1 6b). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > [noun] > compulsory pressing1591 press?1592 impress1603 imprest1610 impressing1641 draft1757 conscription1799 press-ganging1863 blood tax1890 call-up1916 comb1916 1916 Evening News 8 Nov. 1/4 The comb which is being applied at the moment to the police appears once again to have begun at the wrong end. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 61 The comb, the popular newspaper term used in the War for the process of obtaining men for the Army by compulsorily thinning out from the professional classes and trades and Government Offices all physically fit. At the Front the non-combatant branches were also dealt with. 2. transferred. Applied, chiefly in technical use, to various things resembling a comb in function, structure, or appearance. Thesaurus » Categories » a. An instrument with two or three rows of iron teeth of different lengths, used in dressing wool for separating and arranging the fibres; a card; a similar instrument used in dressing flax. Also a toothed instrument in a carding-machine for drawing the fleece or cotton off the cards; a comber. Also a name sometimes given to the reed used in weaving. c. A steel tool with projecting teeth, used for cutting the thread of a screw on work in the lathe. Thesaurus » Categories » d. A toothed instrument used by house-painters in graining; also a tool with wire teeth used in making marbled papers. e. ‘The notched scale of a wire-micrometer’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.). f. ‘The window stool of a casement. Glou.’ (Grose Prov. Gloss. 1787). g. A comb-like row of brass points connected with the prime conductor of an electrical machine for collecting the electricity from the plate. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical power, electricity > place of power generation > [noun] > collector comb1871 c1290 Lives Saints (Laud 1887) 99 Also man draweth with combes wolle, hire tetes heo to-drowe. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xvii. xviii. (Tollem. MS.) Yf þe rynde of þe stocke is smote with yren combes [L. ferreis ungulis], þan droppeþ oute þerof noble opobalsamum. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 39 Some vse..to carde of the knoppes [of flax] with an iron Combe. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 273 Without all Weauers combes. 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxviii. 189 And for the Coumb, or Whing of the Share, which is that which goeth upward upon the Shield-board, I shall tearm the Coumb. 1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I. 37 Lassie, lend me your braw hemp heckle, And I'll lend you my thripling kame. 1757 J. Dyer Fleece iii. 85 Behold the fleece beneath the spiky comb Drop its long locks, or, from the mingling card, Spread in soft flakes. 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 483 [article Wool comber] He then proceeds to place the wool on one of his combs, the steel brooches of which are triple, and are constantly heated in a charcoal pot. 1867 W. Papworth Gwilt's Encycl. Archit. (rev. ed.) ii. iii. 697 Giving the painted work a coat in oil of a brownish tone..this is then scratched over by combs of bone, with blunt points. 1871 H. Watts Dict. Chem. (1879) VI. 551 This force, acting successively upon each portion of the rotating plate as it passes between the paper and the points of the collecting comb, will..cause positive electricity to escape from the plate into the points..In consequence of this action, the comb of the second conductor..becomes positively electrified. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Comb..used in combing long-stapled wool for worsted goods. The combs are used in pairs. Short-stapled wool is carded. h. The lower, fixed cutting-piece of a sheep-shearing machine. Australian and New Zealand. ΚΠ 1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xxix. 379 The cutter..moves from side to side 4,000 times per minute over the comb, which rests upon the skin of the sheep, and threads its way among the wool close to the surface of the body. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Oct. 310/1 Dust can lower the value of a [wool-]clip..besides being hard on combs and cutters. 1956 G. Bowen Wool Away! (ed. 2) vi. 73 It takes a sharp comb and a sharp cutter to cut wool off. 3. a. Applied to natural formations resembling a comb, e.g. a comb-like set of points in a tooth; the comb-like nail or claw of the middle toe of certain birds, as the goatsucker and heron, etc. ΚΠ 1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. vii. 275 In notched incisors, and especially in the comb-like ones of the Flying Lemur..a branch of the pulp-cavity ascends each process of the ‘comb’. b. spec. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [noun] > metacarpus comb1398 metacarpus?a1425 metacarpion1598 metacarp1683 metapodium1844 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xxviii. 138 Pecten, the combe..is composyd of foure bones. (b) Zoology (plural) The pair of abdominal appendages in Scorpions; analogous structures in other lower animals. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > limb or appendage > abdominal appendages comb1831 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Scorpiones > member of (scorpion) > parts of > comb-like appendage(s) pecten1816 comb1831 1831 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom II. 384 A branchial comb, composed of numerous, loose and tabular-like lamellæ. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. v. ii. 270 Beneath the body [in Scorpions]..are two peculiar appendages called the ‘combs’. These organs consist of a stem..and a series of teeth. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 751 ‘Tactile combs’ situated in pairs at the bases of the tentacles [in certain Hydrozoa]. (c) Sometimes used as an equivalent of pecten, in the sense of the marsupium or processus falciformis, a pigmented vascular process which projects into the jelly-like vitreous humour in the eyes of Birds, many Reptiles, and Fishes. (d) Mineralogy. A comb-like structure found in mineral veins which are made up of plates or layers parallel to their walls: see quots. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > features of stratum or vein > [noun] > material within kevel1747 comb1863 coal ball1870 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 114 A comb is one of the layers in a banded vein—so called especially when its surface is more or less set with crystals. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 121 Comb, The place, in a fissure which has been filled by successive depositions of mineral on the walls, where the two sets of layers thus deposited approach most nearly or meet, closing the fissure and exhibiting either a drusy central cavity, or an interlocking of crystals. 1885 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. 585 Banded, comby [structure of mineral veins], in parallel (and sometimes exactly duplicated) layers or combs. (e) A cluster of banana or plantain fruits. ΚΠ 1852–93 Judson's Burmese-Eng. Dict. 358 A stalk or bunch of plantain fruit containing several combs. 4. a. esp. The red fleshy crest or caruncle on the head of the domestic fowl, attaining special development in the male bird; so called from its indented or serrated form. (Cf. cockcomb n.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > head > appendage on comba1000 casque1790 rose comb1815 flesh-bunch1841 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > member of (fowl) > parts of > comb comba1000 coxcomb?a1425 cockcomb?c1475 rose comb1815 pea comb1854 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock > parts of > comb comba1000 coxcomb?a1425 cockcomb?c1475 strawberry comb1746 a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 215/34 Cristas, i. comas, combas on fugele. c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 39 His combe was redder þan þe fyne coral. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Fox l. 454 in Poems (1981) 21 Ȝour beik, ȝour breist, ȝour hekill, and ȝour kame. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 157v Let..your Henne be of a good colour..with a straight redde and duble comme. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 161v Yf they be right Capons, theyr coames becommeth pale. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Reflect. Agric. vi. 50 in Compl. Gard'ner The Heads of some sorts of Birds are Adorned with Tufts and Combs. a1835 J. M. Wilson Hist. Tales Borders (1857) I. 68 The kaim of chanticleer. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species v. 147 A large tuft of feathers on the head is generally accompanied by a diminished comb. b. The similar fleshy outgrowth round or (generally) over each eye in some gallinaceous birds. c. transferred. A crest like that of a cock (attributed to some serpents). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > parts of combc1400 gular1885 subcaudal1964 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxxii. 143 Þare er also nedderes with cambez on þaire heeds, as it ware a cokk. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 460 The mane of the male Lyon, and the combe of the male Serpent. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. Cv Amongst Serpents..some have combs. d. Applied to a crest or ridge of hair. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > [noun] > tuft or ridge of nosegayc1500 tusk1530 feathera1533 tussock1550 tush1570 flacket1589 tuz1693 coxcomb1843 comb1869 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. iii. 29 His beard..of a bright red colour..that comb of hair had been a subject of some wonder to me. 1884 A. Gregory in Fortn. Rev. Mar. 379 The Shillooks..arrange the hair in a comb or crest, high upon the head. 5. From sense 4 come the phrases: †to set up one's comb: to be proud or vainglorious, to hold one's head high. to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of: to lower the pride of, take the conceit out of, tame, ‘take down’, abash, humiliate. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] anitherOE fellOE lowc1175 to lay lowc1225 to set adownc1275 snuba1340 meekc1350 depose1377 aneantizea1382 to bring lowa1387 declinea1400 meekenc1400 to pull downc1425 avalec1430 to-gradea1440 to put downc1440 humble1484 alow1494 deject?1521 depress1526 plucka1529 to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533 to bring down1535 to bring basec1540 adbass1548 diminish1560 afflict1561 to take down1562 to throw down1567 debase1569 embase1571 diminute1575 to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576 exinanite1577 to take (a person) a peg lower1589 to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589 disbasea1592 to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592 comb-cut1593 unpuff1598 atterr1605 dismount1608 annihilate1610 crest-fall1611 demit1611 pulla1616 avilea1617 to put a scorn on, upon1633 mortify1639 dimit1658 to put a person's pipe out1720 to let down1747 to set down1753 humiliate1757 to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789 start1821 squabash1822 to wipe a person's eye1823 to crop the feathers of1827 embarrass1839 to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 to cut out of all feather1865 to sit on ——1868 to turn down1870 to score off1882 to do (a person) in the eye1891 puncture1908 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 to cut down to size1927 flatten1932 to slap (a person) down1938 punk1963 ?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew vi. f. lxiv If it moue the to set vp thy combe when thou geuest thy brother a ferthynge or an halfepennye. 1545 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Luke in Paraphr. New Test. (1548) Pref. After that repentaunce hath cast downe our combe. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xijv My combe was clerely cut. 1644 C. Jessop Angel Church of Ephesus 58 The one cuts the combe of Episcopall Dominion. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. ii. 55 All the Counts in Cumberland shall not cut my comb. 1890 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 50 352/3 His reckoning it a proud thing to cut the comb of an American at all hazards. 6. Applied to various things resembling a cock's comb in position or appearance (= crest): a. The crest of a helmet; the upright blade which sometimes took its place on the morion. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > crest crestc1325 timbre1478 helmet-crest1509 timbrel1513 cone1737 comb1834 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 143/27 Crista, helmes camb. c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 373/13 Crista, cambihte, camb on hætte oððe on helme. 1834 J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume 30 The serrated outline occasionally forming the comb or crest of these Phrygian-looking head-pieces. 1855 F. B. Palliser tr. J. Labarte Handbk. Arts Middle Ages & Renaissance p. xxxii Tilting bourguinot..the comb twisted. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Comb..The raised part of a ‘helmet’ hat, such as are worn by the police; also Crest.] b. The projection on the top of the cock of a gun-lock. Also, the upper corner of the stock of a gun, against which the cheek is placed in firing. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > other parts of lock scutcheon1631 bridle1771 bridle pin1799 feather-spring1807 comb1867 detant1884 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > stock or shaft > parts of shaft1626 side plate1680 pistol hand1702 club1720 heel plate1753 break-off1804 shoulder-butt1810 pistol-butt1814 rifle butt1826 pistol grip1841 nose cap1844 trap1844 trap-plate1844 receiver1851 bump1852 furniture1852 bend1859 comb1867 fore-end1881 furniture-pin1881 grip1881 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Comb..that projecting piece on the top of the cock of a gun-lock, which affords the thumb a convenient hold for drawing it back. 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 433 Measure the distance from A to heel, and from B to comb. c. The crest or ridge of a bank of earth, a rising ground, etc.; the ridge between cart-ruts, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > ridge > [noun] > crest of comba1325 edgec1400 rigging1541 ridge crest1848 ridgetop1849 chine1855 arête1862 back1863 crest-line1890 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2564 If ðat folc hem wulde deren, Ðe dikes comb hem sulde weren. 1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex I. v. 163 He has levelled the ruts and combs of ten miles in one day. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Kaim, kame. This term in Ayrs. is used to denote the crest of a hill, or those pinnacles which resemble a cock's comb. 1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Cooms, the high ridges in ill kept roads between the ruts and the horse path. Norf. Suff. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. iii. 33 We breasted our nags to the rise, and were coming to the comb of it. 1876 R. D. Blackmore Cripps v The ruts of the lane grew more distinct as their combs of frozen mud attracted and held the driving whiteness. 1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall Comb, an upturned ridge left in ploughing. d. A long and narrow hill or ridge, having steep sides. Scottish and English regional (northern), usually in form kame, kaim; frequent in proper names. ΚΠ 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Kaim, kame, a low ridge. Lanarksh. 1862 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 4 341 To examine the remarkable ridges of sand and gravel, called ‘Kaims’, at Bedshiel, at Oxenden, and in the Dune woods..These Kaims consist of elongated ridges of drift..with steep sides, and attaining sometimes a height of 50 or 60 feet. e. The crest or ridge of a roof. dialect. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > tile > [noun] > for roofing > for ridge roof tileeOE rig-tile1327 ridge tile1382 crest1430 crest-tile1477 rigging stone1573 crease1703 ridgetop1761 ridge tiling1795 crown tile1823 comb1824 1824 in Z. F. Smith Hist. Kentucky (1886) 394 The roof was formed by making the end logs shorter, until a single log formed the comb of the roof. 1845 J. J. Hooper Taking Census i. 161 They'd come and set on the comb of the house. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xviii. 174 From the eaves to the comb of the roof. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Comb,..2. The ridge of a roof. f. The crest of a wave. (Cf. comb v.1 5.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > [noun] > crest ridgeOE white nose1771 feather1838 crest1864 sea-cap1867 comb1886 soup1962 peak1963 1886 J. W. Graham Neæra II. xi The darkling waters shook with a brisker frolic of dancing frothy combs. 7. Nautical. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 10 Vnder the midest of it [sc. the beakhead] is the Combe, which is a little peece of wood with two holes in it to bring the fore tacks aboord. 1708 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum (ed. 2) I Comb..is a small piece of Timber set under the lower part of the Beak-head near the middle. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Comb. 8. The flat cake or plate consisting of a double series of hexagonal cells of wax made by bees; a honeycomb.[This use seems to be confined to English. It does not appear to originate in any likeness of a single plate or cake with its cells to a comb for the hair, but either in the fact that the arrangement of the whole of the plates hanging parallel to each other from the roof of the hive suggests a comb with its teeth, or because each plate or ‘comb’ forms a ridge, and the whole a series of parallel ridges, like roofs of houses or ridges of hills rising beyond each other.] ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [noun] > honey > honeycomb honeycombOE comba1300 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17288 + 456 Þai broȝt som of arosted fische, a hony combe als-soo. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Prov. xvi. 24 Wordis wel set togidere is a coomb of hony. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxviiv Take a hyue and splent it within, with thre or foure splentes, that the bees may knyt their combes vnto. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 79 Tis seldome when the bee doth leaue her comb, In the dead carion. View more context for this quotation 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 913 True Nectar..was wont to be made about Olympus..of Wine, Bees-combs, and sweet flowers. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 74 Every comb, newly made, is white: but it becomes yellow as it grows old. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species viii. 229 I put the comb back into the hive. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. comb-bearer n. ΚΠ 1887 C. F. Holder Living Lights 14 The little jelly-like creatures called ‘comb-bearers’ or Ctenophores. comb-box n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > containers for > for a comb comb-casea1586 comb-box1677 1677 London Gaz. No. 1190/4 A Combox, two Powder Boxes, and four other Boxes. 1840 Defoe's Col. Jack in Misc. Wks. V. 349 It was..in a comb-box. comb-teeth n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > comb > teeth of comb-teeth1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xiii. iv. 385 They [leaves] grow..one close vnto another in manner of comb-teeth. 1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) ii Vallus pectinis, the row of the comb teeth. comb-tray n. ΚΠ 1760 A. Whitfeld in Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 283 My daughter, with her comb-tray under her arm. b. comb-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > condition or action of indentation of edge > [adjective] > finely or serrated tootheda1387 serratile?1541 dented1552 denticle1574 sawed1607 comb-like1615 denticulate1661 denticulated1665 serrate1668 serrated1703 dentated1753 dentulated1796 dentelated1797 dentate1810 serratiform1821 serriform1822 teethed1825 saw-edged1846 serried1848 saw-toothed1857 denticular1878 saw tooth1884 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 89 The Comb-like sutures of the Skul. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 218 The antennæ of the Stag Beetles have a clavate extremity divided into short comb-like leaves. 1844 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. vi. 247 The gills form comb-like fringes. comb-shaped adj. comb-wrought adj. C2. comb-back n. a Windsor chair with a straight-top bar into which the back spindles fit; the back of such a chair. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > chair with back > of specific type wainscot chair1663 Windsor chair1724 slat-back1891 comb-back1901 Windsor1901 wheel-back1902 hoop-back1905 ladder-back1908 spoon-back1909 Mendlesham chair1935 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > parts of chairs > back > type of splat1833 yoke back1835 fiddle-back1890 shield1897 comb-back1901 spoon-back1909 1901 E. Singleton Furnit. of Forefathers II. v. 398 Another chair, a Windsor, of the kind called ‘comb back’..was made in all probability by a local workman. 1935 Apollo Aug. 69/1 Windsor chairs..can be divided into two main categories. The chair with the comb-back..and the chair with the hoop-back. 1967 L. J. Braun Cat who ate Danish Mod. vii. 63 I can offer you a Chippendale corner chair, a comb-back Windsor, [etc.]. comb-backed adj. ΚΠ 1929 E. Wilson I thought of Daisy iv. 233 The principal prize was a comb-backed rocking-chair. comb-bar n. (see quot.) ΚΠ 1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 120/2 Comb-bar (Lace Manufac.), a very accurately shaped and finished bar of iron..upon which the ‘comb leads’ are screwed side by side. Categories » comb-broach n. one of the teeth of a wool-comb (Simmonds 1858). comb-card n. a carding comb for wool. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > combing > comb wool-comba1100 wool card1564 woolling comb1599 comb-card1835 wool-comber1843 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 144 To clean and straighten the fibres of the wool, and to prepare it for the next machine, the comb-card. comb-case n. a case to keep a comb in; in quot. a1678 applied to a hive containing only empty combs. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > containers for > for a comb comb-casea1586 comb-box1677 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xiii. sig. I3 By the combe-case of Diana (sware Dametas) this woman is mad. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 11 A Barbers Com-case. a1678 A. Marvell Loyal Scot The hive a combcase, ev'ry bee a drone. 1843 Amer. Pioneer 2 444 A small eight by ten looking-glass sloped from the wall over a large towel and combcase. comb-chafer n. a lamellicorn beetle (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > member of (dung-beetle) sharnbudc1000 dora1450 clock1568 sharn-bug1608 dung beetle1634 grey fly1638 dunghill beetle1658 comb-chafer1712 tumble-turd1754 tumble-dung1775 dung-chafer1805 tumble-bug1805 tumbler1807 bull-comber1813 straddle-bug1839 lamellicorn1842 scarabaeidan1842 shard-beetle1854 watchman1864 scarabaeoid1887 scarabaeid1891 minotaur1918 1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 347 A pale green shining Dor, or Comb-chaffer, from its Horns when expanded resembling a Comb. comb-cleat n. (see cleat n. 2b; cf. sense 7). comb-cutter n. a comb-maker. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of combs combmakerc1450 comb-cutter1874 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Comb-cutter's saw..is usually a double saw, in which two blades are affixed to one stock, one projecting beyond the other, and the less salient acting as a spacer to start the next kerf. ΚΠ 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais in Wks. (1694) ii. vi. ii. 38 I must..handsomly give thee the Combfeat [Fr. un tour de peigne]. With this he took him by the Throat. comb filter n. (see quot. 1960). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > filter > type of band-pass filter1922 slope filter1937 comb filter1941 state variable1942 noise filter1960 notch filter1962 1941 P. Mertz Television—Scanning Process 20 A sort of comb filter having pass bands at the multiples of the line-scanning frequencies. 1960 N. M. Cooke & J. Markus Electronics & Nucleonics Dict. 86/2 Comb filter, a wave filter whose frequency spectrum consists of a number of equi-spaced elements resembling the teeth of a comb. comb-footed adj. having feet furnished with structures resembling combs. ΚΠ 1786 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 74 Your comb-footed bird. comb-foundation n. a thin sheet of beeswax, made to resemble the middle wall of honeycomb, placed in a hive for bees to build their comb upon. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > bee-keeping equipment mantle1609 crown pina1642 queen cage1853 foundation1867 smoker1875 comb-foundation1880 honey bucket1886 bee-smoker1897 1880 Harper's Mag. Oct. 778/1 Comb foundation has another and far greater merit than that of saving labor for the bee: it secures a perfectly even, straight comb for each frame. 1882 N.Y. Tribune 16 Aug. Comb foundation is one of the great aids in apiculture. 1957 Encycl. Brit. III. 306/1 Comb foundation is another important invention, consisting of sheets of pure beeswax on which are embossed the bases of the cells of the honey-comb. comb-frame n. a frame placed in a hive to be filled with honeycomb. comb-fringe n. (see quot.) ΚΠ 1884 W. G. Stables Our Friend Dog vii. 59 Comb-fringe—The hair that droops or hangs down from the tail of a Setter. comb-honey n. honey in the comb, or with portions of the comb remaining in it. comb-jelly n. a ctenophoran jellyfish belonging to the order Cydippidea. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Ctenophora > class Tentacula > order Cydippidea > member of comb-jelly1889 1889 Cent. Dict. Comb-jelly. 1903 J. R. A. Davis Nat. Hist. Animals II. xiv. 155 A common British Comb-Jelly, Cydippe,..which is rowed through the water by eight longitudinal rows of little paddles, which suggest by their appearance the teeth of a comb. 1959 A. Hardy Fish & Fisheries iii. 53 Planktonic predators such as the comb-jellies (ctenophores) Pleurobrachia—or ‘sea gooseberries’, as the fishermen call them. comb-pecked adj. pecked on the comb. ΚΠ 1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable sig. D2v An old combe-peckt rascall that was beaten out a'th Cocke-pit..to come crowing among vs. comb-post n. a post to which one of the combs is attached in wool-combing. ΚΠ 1888 Encycl. Brit. at Wool The operative..had a comb-post..and a comb-pot. comb-pot n. a small stove in which the wool-combs are heated. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > combing > comb > stove for heating comb-pot1782 1782 A. M. Bailey Mech. Machines I. 112 This improvement of the Comb-pot will be the means of preserving the health..of many thousand wool-combers. 1888 Encycl. Brit. at Wool The operative..had a comb-post..and a comb-pot. comb-saw n. a saw for cutting the teeth of combs. comb-wise adv. in manner of a comb. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). combv.1 1. a. transitive. To draw a comb through the hair for the purpose of cleaning, disentangling, or arranging; to dress with a comb; to curry a horse. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > comb kembc1000 comb1398 pectinate1623 rede1718 to comb out1854 redd1864 back-comb1865 fine-tooth comb1889 rat1904 hackle1929 tease1957 sleek1959 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. v. 193 The moder wasshith and kometh the chyldren. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 1003 The berdez of burlyche kyngez, Crispid and kombide. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. B iij b To combe the heed is very holsome. 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iii. iii. 15 Coame downe his haire. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §739 To make their Hair black, by combing it with a Leaden Comb. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 195. ⁋10 He..blustered when his wig was not combed with exactness. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Mermaid in Poems 28 With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair. ΚΠ 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 652 A comb being made of the left horn of a ram, and combed vpon the head. c. to comb the cat: see quots. ΚΠ 1816 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 4) at Cat To Comb the Cat, a term used among sailors and soldiers, signifying to arrange the different cords of a cat o' nine tails..by untangling them, and drawing the whole through the fingers. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Combing the cat, the boatswain, or other operator, running his fingers through the cat-o'-nine-tails, to separate them. 2. a. To dress (wool, flax, etc.) with a comb, so as to separate the fibres, bring them into parallel order, and separate the shorter from the longer. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [verb (transitive)] > comb tozea1250 kemba1300 card1333 comb1577 gill1864 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 39 The bundels [of flax]..are..combed and hacked vpon an iron combe. 1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. ii. i. 195 They don't..comb Wool in the Monasteries. 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 215 The tow or short fibrous matter combed off from the flaxen locks. 1871 D. G. Rossetti Staff & Scrip in Poems vi Her women..In silence combed the fleece. b. House-painting. To grain with a comb. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > decorating and painting > decorate [verb (transitive)] > paint > grain grain1798 comb1867 1867 W. Papworth Gwilt's Encycl. Archit. (rev. ed.) ii. iii. 697 Graining (or combing, as it is termed, in some late specifications). 3. humorously. To beat, thrash, give a ‘dressing’ to; e.g. in to comb a person's head with a three-legged stool, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > beat threshOE beatc1000 to lay on?c1225 chastise1362 rapa1400 dressc1405 lack?c1475 paya1500 currya1529 coil1530 cuff1530 baste1533 thwack1533 lick1535 firka1566 trounce1568 fight1570 course1585 bumfeage1589 feague1589 lamback1589 lambskin1589 tickle1592 thrash1593 lam1595 bumfeagle1598 comb1600 fer1600 linge1600 taw1600 tew1600 thrum1604 feeze1612 verberate1614 fly-flap1620 tabor1624 lambaste1637 feak1652 flog1676 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slipper1682 liquora1689 curry-comb1708 whack1721 rump1735 screenge1787 whale1790 lather1797 tat1819 tease1819 larrup1823 warm1824 haze1825 to put (a person) through a course of sprouts1839 flake1841 swish1856 hide1875 triangle1879 to give (a person or thing) gyp1887 soak1892 to loosen (a person's) hide1902 1600 Wisdome Doctor Dodypoll v. sig. H3 The Marchant I perceiue hath trimde you Doctor, And comb'd you smoothelie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. i. 64 Her care should be, To combe your noddle with a three-legg'd stoole. View more context for this quotation 1679 tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer 20 He would have..combed his head with a Bunch of Keys. 1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) II. iv. xvi. 116 Till I find you a wife, who will comb your head for you. 4. transferred. a. To scrape or rake with an action like that of a comb. to comb off, to remove by such an action (cf. brush v.2 5); also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > rub [verb (transitive)] > scrape shavec725 shrapec1000 claw1377 screeve?1440 scartc1480 gratec1530 rape1533 ruffle1615 corrade1646 comb1654 rasp1707 scrape1731 skin1795 scuff1897 the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > by combing to kemb from or off1601 to comb off1850 1654 R. Vilvain tr. Enchiridium Epigr. 177 Strings [of a lute]..Which he combs equaly. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iii. 20 He..will..be combed off by the elm-boughs, and left sprawling in the ditch. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. ii. 66 There would be plenty of voters to be combed off by a Radical who offered himself with good pretensions. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 19 From this [fiddle] did Paganini comb the fierce Electric sparks. 1878 Scribners Mag. 15 231/1 The oysterman begins to ‘comb’ the beds..by means of coarse-meshed dredges. b. To search or examine minutely. colloquial (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > scrutinize [verb (transitive)] through-seekOE gropea1250 to search outa1382 ensearch1382 boltc1386 examinea1387 ransackc1390 ripea1400 search1409 overreach?a1425 considerc1425 perquirec1460 examec1480 peruse?1520 grounda1529 study1528 oversearch1532 perscrute1536 scrute1536 to go over ——1537 scan1548 examinate1560 rifle1566 to consider of1569 excuss1570 ripe1573 sift1573 sift1577 to pry into ——1581 dive1582 rub1591 explore1596 pervestigate1610 dissecta1631 profound1643 circumspect1667 scrutinize1671 perscrutatea1679 introspect1683 rummage1690 reconnoitre1740 scrutinate1742 to look through1744 scrutiny1755 parse1788 gun1819 cat-haul1840 vivisect1876 scour1882 microscope1888 tooth-comb1893 X-ray1896 comb1904 fine-tooth comb1949 1904 ‘O. Henry’ Cabbages & Kings iv. 80 In Coralia Señor Goodwin himself led the searching party which combed that town as carefully as a woman combs her hair. 1913 C. E. Mulford Coming of Cassidy ix. 138 Then, sweeping north, they combed the range to the northern line [for cattle]. 1927 Daily Express 23 July 10/6 Search for missing scientist. Plans for ‘combing’ a ten-mile radius. 1927 Morning Post 19 Aug. 7 The Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and Hawaii is being combed to-day by aircraft and shipping for signs of the two 'planes. c. Of a ship: to turn into line with the tracks of approaching torpedoes in order to avoid being hit. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > perform operation or manoeuvre [verb (intransitive)] > turn into line with torpedo track comb1942 1942 G. Hackforth-Jones One-One-One ix. 94 With smoke pouring from the gap in the bows the ship was swung to starboard to ‘comb’ the tracks of the approaching torpedoes. 1954 P. K. Kemp Fleet Air Arm 134 The Formidable had no difficulty in avoiding them [sc. the torpedoes], as she had time at that range to alter course and comb the tracks. 1957 R. Barker Ship-busters xiii. 245 The tanker..was turning towards the track of the torpedo in an endeavour to ‘comb’ it. 5. intransitive. Of a wave: ‘To roll over, as the top of a wave; or to break with a white foam’ (Webster, 1828). (Apparently of U.S. origin.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > move restlessly about [verb (intransitive)] > break with foam comb1807 crest1850 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 40 The Stream ungovernable foams with ire, Climbs, combs tempestuous. 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 366 Waves spitting round piles or combing upon the shore. 1881 W. C. Russell Sailor's Sweetheart II. vi. 321 The waves combed over the vessel in green seas. 6. to comb out. a. transitive. To disentangle or dress (the hair) with a comb; hence figurative, to separate or sort out. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > separate from main body skillc1175 to tell outc1325 shillc1440 sequestrate1513 sorta1535 shoal1571 segregate1579 dismember1580 single1582 scatter1588 disgregate1593 recond1608 sepone1619 sequester1625 canton1653 to cantonize outa1670 portion1777 to set off1795 to comb out1854 distinguish1866 split1924 hive off1931 section1960 separate1962 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > comb kembc1000 comb1398 pectinate1623 rede1718 to comb out1854 redd1864 back-comb1865 fine-tooth comb1889 rat1904 hackle1929 tease1957 sleek1959 1854 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross (new ed.) lv. 390 Forthwith the dandified Horatio began to comb out his words, and string together his sentences. 1855 C. Kingsley Heroes ii. v They..combed out their golden hair. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. v. 33 It was as if he had combed out his cares. 1937 E. Hemingway To have & have Not iii. xxvi. 259 He took..the pins out and combed it out and it was just like gold. 1964 Sunday Express 1 Mar. 19/4 Clients on all sides were being ‘combed out’. 1966 ‘L. Black’ Bait viii. 124 Emma's hair-do was nearly finished... ‘Just finishing. Let me comb it out.’ 1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 38/1 Comb-out. (1) To comb through the set and dried hairdress preparatory to the final arrangement of the tresses. (2) To comb a head of hair. b. To clear out (men) for military service from civil employments. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > enlist (soldiers) [verb (transitive)] > compel to enlist prest1481 press1542 impress1598 imprest1645 lot1757 conscribe1806 conscript1813 draft1862 press-gang1899 to comb out1916 1916 Daily Mail 1 Nov. 5/6 ‘Comb out the contractors' useless men,’ said a farmer delegate. 1918 Mrs. H. Ward War & Elizabeth vii My two brothers are dead in France. I shall be ‘combed’ out directly. 1923 G. D. H. Cole Workshop Organization 28 The successive ‘combings-out’ of the munition works for further ‘man-power’ for the fighting forces. c. = 4b. Also, to attack systematically. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > attack systematically to comb out1917 1917 ‘I. Hay’ Carrying On viii. 212 Fighting in the Redoubt itself had almost ceased, though a humorous sergeant, followed by acolytes bearing bombs, was still ‘combing out’ certain residential districts in the centre of the maze. 1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 22 To comb out, to sweep over in formation, attacking ground targets with gun-fire. Thus, ‘We're combing out the North of France this afternoon’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † combv.2 Obsolete: see combing adj.2 This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). > see alsoalso refers to : coombcombn.1 also refers to : coombcombecombn.2 < see also |
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