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Comb (Toothed implement used)

a toothed implement used in every age and by all peoples for dressing and keeping clean the hair. Combs are also used for fastening the hair when dressed, and as head ornaments. Combs are made of horn, tortoise shell, ivory, wood, bone, metal, india-rubber, celluloid, and composition. Saw-cutting is the only process available for bone, ivory, and wooden combs, and it is used for the finer kinds of horn combs also. Indiarubber combs, now so extensively used, are manufactured by pressing the caoutchouc to the required form in molds, and "vulcanizing" or combining it with sulphur afterward.