'Combing' definitions:
Definition of 'combing'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a comb" [syn: comb, combing]
Definition of 'Combing'
From: GCIDE
- Comb \Comb\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Combed; p. pr. & vb. n. Combing.] 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. [1913 Webster]
- Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Combing'
From: GCIDE
- Combing \Comb"ing\, n.
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The process of combing is used in straightening wool of long staple; short wool is carded. [1913 Webster]
- 2. pl. (a) That which is caught or collected with a comb, as loose, tangled hair. (b) Hair arranged to be worn on the head. [1913 Webster]
- The baldness, thinness, and . . . deformity of their hair is supplied by borders and combings. --Jer. Taylor. (c) (Naut.) See Coamings. [1913 Webster]
- Combing machine (Textile Manuf.), a machine for combing wool, flax, cotton, etc., and separating the longer and more valuable fiber from the shorter. See also {Carding machine}, under Carding. [1913 Webster]