n. 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.n. Anything resembling a comb in appearance or use, especially for mechanical use.n. The notched scale of a wire micrometer.n. The window-stool of a casement.n. 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.n. Anything resembling in nature, shape, or position the caruncle on a fowl's head.n. The pecten or marsupium in the interior of a bird's eye.n. In mining, the division of the mass of a lode into parallel plates, or layers of crystalline material parallel to its walls.n. The projection on the top of the hammer of a gun-lock.n. The top corner of a gun-stock, on which the cheek rests in firing.n. A honeycomb.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.n. A dry measure of 4 bushels, or half a quarter.n. A brewing-vat.n. A more or less rounded, bowl-shaped hollow or valley inclosed on all sides but one by steep and in some cases perpendicular cliffs.n. n. See comb-flower.To subject to a process or action similar to that of combing, as in dredging: as, to comb oyster-beds.