It was tedious and slow work, and a more skilful operation than carding; and the combshad to be kept constantly heated; but no machine-combing ever equalled hand-combing.
Wool-combs were shaped like the letter T, with about thirty long steel teeth from ten to eighteen inches long set at right angles with the top of the T.
The combs are worn throughout the whole Semang district, but on the western side of the mountain chain of the Peninsula, from Kedah to Perak, these are used more as ornament, and the originals for the composition of the patterns are forgotten.
The patterns on the combsexhibit flowers, or the principal parts of flowers, which serve as simples against the disease.
The combs are only used by women against invisible sickness, etc.
The young men, unskilled in carving, and not always perfectly acquainted with the patterns, cut the combs for their sisters and future wives.
As to the origin of the custom, the Semang unanimously declare that the patterns of the combs were the invention of the god Ple for themselves, and were not borrowed from any other folk.
A very good example of this is found among the magic patterns on the combs of the Negritos of Malacca, and I would refer the reader to the section on Sympathetic Magic (p.
One reason for this is that the patterns of the combs are mostly incised by young men and not by the older men, as is the case with the quivers and blow-pipes.
The youths who copy the combs overlook this and insert in the neighbouring bands the complete was and pawer patterns.
Let's just try a tune or two before we go on, to be sure that all the combswork right.
So we all papered our combs and did "Heroes," but that sounded awful.
And then how industriously she would clean herself, drawing her antennae through the neat little antennae combs on her front legs, and licking herself with her long flexible tongue, or getting licked by her mates all over.
Not over the nursery combs where there is work to be done, feeding and caring for the young bees.
Chickens' combs and kidneys come in bottles from France.
On some of the segments the larger hairs are arranged in rows and are used as a sort of comb with which the fly combs the dirt from the rest of its body.
Or they may get on our food as the fly feeds or while it rests andcombs its body with the rows of coarse hairs on its legs.
The combs so made are flat, with the blunt ends converging and generally fastened together, and the long sharp ends, which are the ends to be inserted into the hair, spreading outwards.
These combs are only worn by men; they are commonly worn in front, projecting forwards over the forehead, as is done in Mekeo; but they are also worn at the back of the head, projecting sideways to either right or left.
The lateral spines of the three combs are not directed upwards, but downwards.
In Stichopera the three radial appendages are either solid lateral ribs or longitudinal combs of spines; the closed basal part of the shell is rounded, not pointed.
Along the whole shell arise three longitudinal combs or rows of ascending spines (three on each joint, fifteen on the last).
Shell with three radial combs or longitudinal rows of isolated spines (instead of the three radial ribs).
Stichoperida# (vel Stichocyrtida triradiata clausa) with three solid lateral ribs, or three longitudinal combs of spines.
When they have plenty of wax, they make their combs the full breadth of the hive, and solder them to the glass or wooden sides, by structures more or less approaching the form of cells, as circumstances admit.
By melting the scales, he ascertained at least that they were wax; and his opinion was confirmed by the fact, that the scales are only to be found during the season when the combs are constructed.
Did the bees lay the foundations of all their combs at the same time, they would not find it easy to preserve parallelism and an equality in their distances.
From the upper combs in a nest, workers are produced; from the lower ones, queens or females; and from the intermediate ones, males.
We removed the queen, and substituted combs containing eggs and young grubs, but no cell with farina; even the smallest particle of the substance which John Hunter conjectured to be the basis of the nutriment of the young was taken away.
But should the supply of wax fail before they have been able to give sufficient diameter to the combs whose edges are rounded, large intervals remain between them and the upright sides of the hive, and they are fixed only at the top.
Therefore, the cells on the upper or convex side of the combs are enlarged; they are constructed of three or four times the width of those on the opposite surface.
Those that had eaten it most greedily mounted the combs before the rest, and stopping on the cells of the young worms, inserted their heads, and remained there for a certain time.
Their combs remained perfectly white until the beginning of July, when the state of the atmosphere became more favourable for our observations.
Die Joan and Will; give Bess to Ned, And every day she combs his head.
I have hens which seem well in every respect up to the time of their combs changing color, when they die within three days.
Whitewash the stall once weekly, scrub the harness, brushes, combs and every stable appliance that he has come in contact with.
The combsturn a faint yellow, almost white; they are heavy, have their usual appetite up to the lost 24 hours.
Three damsels in the queen's chamber, The queen's mouth was most fair; She spake a word of God's mother As the combs went in her hair.
They held the gold combs out from her, A span's length off her head; She sang this song of God's mother And of her bearing-bed.
I am trying to test the case practically by getting combs of different species, and of our own bee from different climates.
Combs could be concentrically and variously coloured and dates recorded by giving for a few days wax darkly coloured with vermilion and indigo, and I daresay other substances.
As important objects of adornment, we find the combs of the women, which, among the Malaccan tribes, are extremely rich in linear decorations.
In more restricted localities we find also earrings and nose-rings, the boring through of the lips, and combs to which twigs and leaves are attached.
This multiplication of motives reaches its most artistic development in the women's combs found among the tribes of the Malay Peninsula.
In Malacca, indeed, the combs are carefully preserved; the drawings made upon them render them, as it were, sacred objects.
It is magic, likewise, that affords the explanation of the statement of the Senoi and the Semangs that the drawings on the combs of their women are a means of protection against diseases.
It might be white water, or it might be only the last rays of the setting sun tipping the combs of the regular seas.
These must be supplemented, also, by taking care that the head-covering is not too heating, that the rim of the hat is not too hard, and that irritation of the scalp by hard brushes and fine combs is strictly avoided.
They feel the cold, of course, as all our insects do, and inside the nest, on the shelves formed by the flat tops of the combs where the larvae live, they find dry roosting places at night.
There were pearls round her throat and round her arms, and the golden combs that held back her hair were ornamented with them.
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It is thick at the base, and like three combs joined into one, the centre comb being higher than the other, but the comb altogether must be low, rounded at the top, and the indentations must not be deep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "combs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
