Definition of comb

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Comb (n.) The curling crest of a wave.

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Coal :: Coal (n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal..
Monomachy :: Monomachy (n.) A duel; single combat.
Couplement :: Couplement (n.) Union; combination; a coupling; a pair.
Uranoso- :: Uranoso- (a.) A combining form (also used adjectively) from uranium; -- used in naming certain complex compounds; as in uranoso-uranic oxide, uranoso-uranic sulphate..
Aphthong :: Aphthong (n.) A letter, or a combination of letters, employed in spelling a word, but in the pronunciation having no sound..
Beach Comber :: Beach comber () A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber..
Alloxanate :: Alloxanate (n.) A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.
Pectinated :: Pectinated (a.) Interlaced, like two combs..
Valero- :: Valero- () A combining form (also used adjectively) indicating derivation from, or relation to, valerian or some of its products, as valeric acid; as in valerolactone, a colorless oily liquid produced as the anhydride of an hydroxy valeric acid..
Stereoscopic :: Stereoscope (n.) An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer..
Confederacy :: Confederacy (n.) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy..
Joust :: Joust (v. i.) A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field.
Combustion :: Combustion (n.) Violent agitation; confusion; tumult.
Zinco- :: Zinco- () A combining form from zinc; in chemistry, designating zinc as an element of certain double compounds. Also used adjectively..
Digraph :: Digraph (n.) Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath..
Tragi-comi-pastoral :: Tragi-comi-pastoral (a.) Partaking of the nature of, or combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry..
Deflector :: Deflector (n.) That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion)..
Euphonism :: Euphonism (n.) An agreeable combination of sounds; euphony.
Temper :: Temper (v. t.) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm..
Theanthropical :: Theanthropical (a.) Partaking of, or combining, both divinity and humanity..
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