CPage 289
- English Word Comatose Definition Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.
- English Word Comatous Definition Comatose.
- English Word Comatula Definition A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars.
- English Word Comatulid Definition Any crinoid of the genus Antedon or allied genera.
- English Word Comb Definition An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
- English Word Comb Definition An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
- English Word Comb Definition A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.
- English Word Comb Definition The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
- English Word Comb Definition A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
- English Word Comb Definition A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- English Word Comb Definition The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- English Word Comb Definition The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- English Word Comb Definition The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.
- English Word Comb Definition One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.
- English Word Comb Definition The curling crest of a wave.
- English Word Comb Definition The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
- English Word Comb Definition The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.
- English Word Comb Definition To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. See under Combing.
- English Word Comb Definition To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- English Word Comb Definition Alt. of Combe
- English Word Comb Definition A dry measure. See Coomb.
- English Word Comb-shaped Definition Pectinate.
- English Word Combat Definition To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
- English Word Combat Definition To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.
- English Word Combat Definition A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.
- English Word Combat Definition An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.
- English Word Combatable Definition Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments.
- English Word Combatant Definition Contending; disposed to contend.
- English Word Combatant Definition One who engages in combat.
- English Word Combated Definition of Combat