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The cavities In which the bees lodge their honey. Per¬ 
haps from the fame word which makes the termination of 
towns, and iignifies hollow or deep 
This in affairs of (late, 
Employ’d at home, abides within.the gate, 
To fortify the combs, to build the wali, 
To prop the ruins, left the fabric fall. Dry den. 
To COMB, v. a. To divide, and clean, and adjuft the 
hair with a comb.—Divers with us that are grown grey, 
and yet would appear young, find means to make their 
hair black, by combing it, as they fay, with a leaden comb. 
Bacon. 
She with ribbon tied 
His tender neck, and comb'd his filken hide. Dryden. 
To lay any thing confiding of filaments finooth, by draw¬ 
ing through narrow interfaces as, to comb wool. 
COMB-BRUSH, f. A brufh to clean combs. 
COMB-MAKER,/ One whole trade is to make combs. 
—This wood is of ufe for the turner, engraver, carver, and 
comb-maker. Mortimer. —An ingenious machine for cut¬ 
ting and making combs, has lately been invented by Mr. 
William Bundy, of Camden-town, near London ; which 
is faid to cut the teeth extremely neat, fine, and true, 
and to perform the work with great facility. It is pro¬ 
tected by the king’s letters patent, granted June 20, 1796/ 
COMB-MARTIN, a fmall town on the north coalt of 
Devonfhire, in the Briftol channel, with a fmall creek for 
boats; near it are filver mines, which formerly produced 
.a conliderable quantity of ore : thirty-nine miles weft of 
Bridgewater, and 176 weft of London. 
.COI'.fBAHEE', a conliderable river of South Carolina, 
which enters St. Helena found between Coofa and Afhe- 
poo rivers.— Combahee Ferry, on this river, is feventeen 
miles from Jackfonfborough, fifteen from Pocotaglio, and 
fifty-two from Charleftown. 
COM'BAM, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 
Cuddapa: fixty-five miles north of Ctiddapa. 
COM'BAMET, a town of Hindooftan, in the country 
of Golconda : iixty-eiglit miles ealt of Hydrabad. 
To COM'BAT, tv. n. [ combattre, Fr.] To fight: gene¬ 
rally in a duel, or hand to hand.—Pardon me*I will not 
combat in my fhirt. Shakefpeare. —To aft in oppofition, as 
the acid and alkali combat: 
Two planets rufhing from afpeft malign 
Of fierceft oppofition in mid fky, 
Should combat, and their jarring fpheres confound. Milton. 
To COM'BAT, v. ay To oppofe ; to fight: 
Love yields at laft, thus combated by pride. 
And file fubmits to be the Roman’s bride. Granville. 
COM'BAT,/. Conteft ; battle; duel; ftrife ; oppofi¬ 
tion : generally between two, but fometimes it is uled for 
battle.—The noble combat that, ’twixt joy and forrow, was 
fought in Paulina! She had one eye declined for the lofs 
of her hufband, another elevated that the oracle was ful¬ 
filled. Shakefpeare.— The combat nowe by courage mult 
be tried. Dryden. —In our ancient law combat was a for¬ 
mal trial of fome doubtful caufe, by the fwords of two 
champions. The laft trial of this kind in England was 
between Donald lord Ray appellant, and David Ramfay, 
efquire, defendant, when, after many formalities, the mat¬ 
ter was referred to the king’s pleafure. See the article 
Battel, vol. ii. p. 809. 
COM'BATAN F, /. \_combattant,_ Fr.] He that fights 
•with another; duellilt; antagonift in arms: 
So frown’d the mighty combatant, that hell 
Grew darker at their frown. Milton. 
A champion.—When any of thofe combatants ftrips his 
terms of ambiguity, I ffiall think him a champion for 
knowledge. Locke. —With for before the thing defended. 
—Men become combatants for thofe opinions. Locke. 
COM'BE, in fabulous hiftory, a daughter of the Ophi- 
s, who firlt invented a brazen fuit of armour. She was 
COM 
changed into a bird, and efcaped from her.-children, who 
had confpired to murder her. Ovid. 
COM'BE,/ [Sax.] A valiey between two hills. Ma- 
foil's Supplement to Jobnfon. 
COMBEAU' FONTAI'NE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Upper Saone, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftrift of JufTey : eleven miles weft-no:th-welt 
of Vezoul, and feven Youth of Jufiey. 
COMBE'FIS (Francis), a learned Dominican, born in 
1605, and highly diftinguiflied by a penlion voluntarily 
offered to him by the'clergy of France, as an encourage¬ 
ment to publilh new editions of the Greek fathers. He 
gave editions of Amphilocus, Methodius., Andreas Cre- 
tenfis, and other works of the Greek fathers. He made 
a considerable addition to the Bibliotheca Patrum, Greek 
and Latin, in three volumes folio. He publilhed all’o. 
The five Greek hiftorians after Theophanes, by way of 
fupplement to the Byzantine hiftorians, in one volume 
folio. This is faid to have been undertaken by order of 
the French miniiter Colbert. There are alfo other works 
of Combefis, who died in 1679: “ confumed,” fays his 
biographer, “ by the aufterities of the cloifter, by the 
labours of the ftudy, and by the pains of the .ftone.” 
COM'BENY, a river cf South Wales, in Caermarthen- 
ftiire, which runs to the Loughor: five miles nprth-eaft 
of Lianelthy. 
COM'BER (Dr. Thomas), a learned divine of the 
church of England, horn at Wefterham in Kent, in 1645. 
He was educated at Sidney-Suffex-college in Cambridge, 
and took the degree of D. D. between 1676 and 1679. In 
1677 he was made by archbiffiop Sterne a prebendary of 
York; and in January 1684 was collated to the praecen- 
torlhip. Upon the deprivation of Dr. Glanviile, he was 
nominated to fucceed him in the deanery of Durham. 
He was chaplain to Anne princefs of Denmark, and to 
king William and queen Mary, and would probably have 
been raifed higher in the church if he had lived; but he 
died, November 25, 1699, and was buried at Stonegrave 
in Yorklhire, of which he was reftor. He was the author 
of feveral learned works, chiefly relating to the common- 
prayer and offices of the church. 
There was alfo another Thomas Comber, D. D. who 
lived in the fame century, and was of Trinity-college in 
Cambridge. He was born in Suflex, Jan. 1575; admitted 
fcholar of Trinity in May 1593; chofen fellow of the 
fame, Oft. 1597; preferred to the deanery of Carlifle, 
Aug. 1630 ; and fworn in matter of Trinity-college, Oft. 
1631. In 1642, he was impriloned, plundered, and de¬ 
prived of all his preferments; and died in Feb. 1633,.at 
Cambridge. He wrote A11 hiftorical Vindication of the 
divine Right of Tythes, againlt Selden’s Hiftory of 
Tythes, quarto. 
CO'MBER,/ He whofe trade it is to difentangle wool, 
and lay it fmooth for the fpinner. 
COMBERME'RE, a lake of England, in the county of 
Chefter, on the borders of Shropffiire : five miles fouthof 
Nantwich. 
COM'BINATE, adj. Betrothed; promifed ; fettled by 
compaft.—She loft a nobler brother; with him the finew 
of her fortune, her marriage dowry : with both, her com- 
binate hufband, this well-feeming Angelo. Shakefpeare. 
COMBINATION,/ Union for fome certain purpofe; 
affociation 5 league. A combination is of private perfons; 
a confederacy, of ftates or fovereigns : 
This cunning cardinal 
The articles o’ th’ combination drew. 
As himfelf pleas’d. Shakefpeare. 
Combinations to do unlawful afts, are punifhable before 
the unlawful aft is executed ; this is to prevent the con- 
ftquence of combinations and confpiracies. It is now 
generally ufed in an ill fenfe.—They aim to lubdue all to 
their own will and power, under the difguiles of holy com¬ 
binations. King Charles. —Union of bodies, or qualities; 
commixture conjunftion.—Refolution of compound bo- 
