Mustache-grooming item
Publish date: 2024-06-09
• | An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place. |
• | An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb. |
• | A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc. |
• | The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine. |
• | A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat. |
• | A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser. |
• | The notched scale of a wire micrometer. |
• | The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb. |
• | The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red. |
• | One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions. |
• | The curling crest of a wave. |
• | The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb. |
• | The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked. |
• | 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. |
• | To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves. |
• | Alt. of Combe |
• | A dry measure. See Coomb. |
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