comb

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A thin toothed strip, as of plastic, used to smooth, arrange, or fasten the hair.
• noun An implement, such as one for dressing and cleansing wool or other fiber, that resembles a hair comb in shape or use.
• noun A currycomb.
• noun The fleshy crest or ridge that grows on the crown of the head of domestic fowl and other birds and is most prominent in the male.
• noun Something suggesting a fowl's comb in appearance or position.
• noun A honeycomb.
• intransitive verb To move a comb through (the hair) so as to arrange or groom.
• intransitive verb To move through or pass across with a raking action.
• intransitive verb To straighten and separate (wool or other fibers) using a comb.
• intransitive verb To search thoroughly; look through.
• intransitive verb To eliminate with or as with a comb.
• intransitive verb To roll and break. Used of waves.
• intransitive verb To make a thorough search.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A dry measure of 4 bushels, or half a quarter.
• noun A brewing-vat.
• To dress with a comb: as, to comb one's hair.
• To card, as wool; hackle, as flax.
• To grain with a painter's comb.
• To roll over or break with a white foam, as the. top of a wave.
• noun A more or less rounded, bowl-shaped hollow or valley inclosed on all sides but one by steep and in some cases perpendicular cliffs.
• To subject to a process or action similar to that of combing, as in dredging: as, to comb oyster-beds.
• noun See comb-flower.
• noun A thin strip of wood, metal, bone, ivory, tortoise-shell, etc., one or both edges of which are indentated so as to form a series of teeth, or to which teeth have been attached; or several such strips set parallel to one another in a frame, as in a currycomb.
• noun Anything resembling a comb in appearance or use, especially for mechanical use.
• noun The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
• noun The window-stool of a casement.
• noun The fleshy crest or caruncle growing, in one of several forms, on the head of the domestic fowl, and particularly developed in the male birds: so called from its serrated indentures in the typical form, or single comb, which resemble the teeth of a comb.
• noun Anything resembling in nature, shape, or position the caruncle on a fowl's head.
• noun The pecten or marsupium in the interior of a bird's eye.
• noun In mining, the division of the mass of a lode into parallel plates, or layers of crystalline material parallel to its walls.
• noun The projection on the top of the hammer of a gun-lock.
• noun The top corner of a gun-stock, on which the cheek rests in firing.
• noun A honeycomb.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb. See under combing.
• intransitive verb (Naut.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
• noun A dry measure. See coomb.
• noun That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it.
• noun An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
• noun An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
• noun A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.
• noun The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
• noun A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
• noun A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
• noun The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
• noun The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.