combs

Noun

• a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
• the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
• any of several tools for straightening fibers
• ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
• the act of drawing a comb through hair
• plural of comb
• Combinations (underwear).

Verb

• straighten with a comb
• search thoroughly
• smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
• third-person singular simple present indicative of comb

Synonyms

cockscomb, comb, comb out, combing, coxcomb, disentangle, ransack