comb

Noun

• the act of drawing a comb through hair
  • his hair needed a comb
    

• ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore

• any of several tools for straightening fibers

• the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds

• a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair

Verb

• smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
  • comb your hair before dinner
    
  • comb the wool
    

• search thoroughly
  • They combed the area for the missing child
    

• straighten with a comb
  • comb your hair
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  combing , cockscomb , coxcomb , comb out , disentangle , ransack