ppl. a. [f. COMB sb.1 and v.1]
1. Having a comb.
1562. J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 213. Comely combed crowyng cock.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 310. A cock, gallantly crested or combed.
1825. Fosbroke, Encycl. Antiq., xviii. (1843), 900. The combed head-piece was a morion with a high ridge on its top; the Combe-caps had a ridge hanging over them from the front to the rear, seemingly the same.
1858. Longf., M. Standish, III. 141. Had for his crest a cock argent Combed and wattled gules.
2. Dressed, etc., with a comb.
1839. Loudon, Encycl. Archit., 840. The Devonshire thatching … is done with combed wheat straw.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., III. IV. 104. His combed-out hair.
1885. Bible (R. V.), Isa. xix. 9. They that work in combed flax.
