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COMB

Volume 2 · 49 words · 1771 Edition

an instrument to clean, untangle, and dress flax, wool, hair, &c.

Combs for wool are prohibited to be imported into Britain.

Comb is also the crest or red fleshy tuft growing upon a cock's head.

Lady's Comb, in botany. See Scandix.

Coma-fish, in the history of shell-fish. See Ostrea.