(kōm) noun
1. A thin piece of horn, metal, ivory, or the like, with teeth, for cleansing, dressing, or fastening the hair.
2. Something resembling such a comb in appearance or use, as a currycomb or a card for dressing wool or flax.
3. The fleshy crest on the head of a fowl.
4. The crest of a hill or wave.
5. Honeycomb.
6. That part of a gunstock in which the cheek rests.
7. The ridge of a roof.
—v.t.
1. To dress, disentangle, or smoothe out with or as with a comb, as hair; clear or cleanse with a comb.
2. To card, as wool or flax.
3. In painting, to grain with a comb.
4. To search carefully and exhaustively.
—v.i.
5. To crest and break: said of waves. [OE camb]

(km, kōm)
See COOMB.