Word Meanings - COMBING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See CARDING (more info) 1. The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool. Note: The process of combing is used in straightening wool of long

Additional info about word: COMBING

See CARDING (more info) 1. The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool. Note: The process of combing is used in straightening wool of long staple; short wool is carded. 2. pl. That which is caught or collected with a comb, as loose, tangled hair. Hair arranged to be worn on the head. The baldness, thinness, and . . . deformity of their hair is supplied by borders and combings. Jer. Taylor.

Related words: (words related to COMBING)

• COMBER
  1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave.
• CARD
  A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard. 5. An indicator card. See under Indicator. Business card, a card on which is printed an advertisement or business address.
• USHERDOM
  The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• USTULATE
  Blackened as if burned.
• COMBUST
  So near the sun as to be obscured or eclipsed by his light, as the moon or planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun. Planets that are oft combust. Milton. (more info) com- + burere , of uncertian origin; cf. bustum
• COMBUSTIOUS
  Inflammable. Shak.
• CARDCASE
  A case for visiting cards.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• COMBAT
  To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• USURY
  1. A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Deut. xxiii.
• USURPANT
  Usurping; encroaching. Gauden.
• STRAIGHTENER
  One who, or that which, straightens.
• COMBATTANT
  In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.
• COMBUSTIBILITY
  The quality of being combustible.
• CARDINALSHIP
  The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal
• USQUEBAUGH
  of life; uisge water + beatha life; akin to Gr. bi`os life. See 1. A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky. The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. Sir W. Scott. 2. A liquor
• USURIOUS
  1. Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person. 2. Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract. -- U*su"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- U*su"ri*ous*ness, n.
• CARDAMINE
  A genus of cruciferous plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc.
• MENISCUS
  A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. (more info) 1. A crescent.
• PROTOGYNOUS
  See PROTEROGYNOUS
• ANGUINEOUS
  Snakelike.
• POLYPHYLLOUS
  Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
• BUSH
  The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean , a variety of bean which is low and requires no support . See
• TROUSSEAU
  The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
• PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
  Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
• PALACIOUS
  Palatial. Graunt.
• RIPARIOUS
  Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• DESMOGNATHOUS
  Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• CARNIVOROUS
  Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• ANTIBILLOUS
  Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.
• RUSHED
  Abounding or covered with rushes.
• HORRISONOUS
  Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey.
• BICUSPID
  One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.