Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

   Note: The process of combing is used in straightening wool of
         long staple; short wool is carded.

   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.

                The baldness, thinness, and . . . deformity of
                their hair is supplied by borders and combings.
                                                  --Jer. Taylor.
      (c) (Naut.) See {Coamings}.

   {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}.