Combing

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of using a comb.
  • noun. The process of carding wool. See card, transitive verb, and carding-machine.
  • noun. The process of hackling flax.
  • noun. Graining on wood.
  • noun. That which is removed by combing or carding: generally in the plural: as, the combings of wool or hair.
  • noun. Hair combed over a bald part of the head.
  • noun. Same as coaming.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. That which is caught or collected with a comb, as loose, tangled hair.
  • noun. Hair arranged to be worn on the head.
  • noun. See Coamings.
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of comb.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of drawing a comb through hair
  • Word Usage
    "This is the second process of combing, and is called _combing_."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    comb-out  teasing  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    variant
    coamings  
    verb-stem
    comb