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Definition of Combs
1. comb [v] - See also: comb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Combs
Literary usage of Combs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"combs, both for use arid ornament, are of very great antiquity. The Egyptians,
Greeks, and Romans made their combs from hard wood, generally boxwood, ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1911)
"32 LRA(NS) money with him, and combs consented to go with him to the town of
Sutton to get it, and assisted defendant in leading the cow to town. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1856)
"As the combs get filled, the wool is thus continuously being brought under the
action of the porcupine combing rollers and brushes; and each new portion of ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The legal title being in combs, the appellees have shown no equity in themselves.
... (l>) To establish an equity against combs, in the absence of proof or ..."
5. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1888)
"combs. [67 MARYLAND, 11. J "DlS WITHOUT ISSUE OF HIS BODY LAWFULLY ... Robert C.
combs and Joseph F. Morgan, for the appellees. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The sections to be used for combs are taken to the opening department, where they
are wetted in water and heated over an open fire till the horny substance ..."
7. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"For obtaining this.upward and downward motion, the combs м, м, are placed upon
the frame к, and retained there just as the combs g, g, are upon the holders ..."
8. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"Decorated combs (p. 32) are made of bamboo or wood; in both there is a tendency
... The decoration of the handles of wooden combs usually consists of simple ..."
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