0 present participle of comb --
2 to search a place or an area very carefully in order to find something: --
The combing has been going on drastically for the last two years.
Now again the process of combing out is being gone through, not with a harrow but with a small -tooth comb.
The papers also call attention to the rewards of deeply combing the archives for new sources about the post-emancipation adjustments and about the meanings of new forms of social relations.
However, because this combing is impossible on even-dimensional spheres, it follows that the existence of a one-dimensional nonsingular foliation on these even-dimensional spheres also is impossible.
Tow fibre was then removed from the line fibre by combing on a set of sharp pins (hackling).
It can act as one stage in the process of rewriting, of going through the text again and again combing it, like hair, until it shines.
They have included a most comprehensive critical apparatus, and their diligence in combing the official and unofficial sources for the expedition merits high encomium.
Combing elements of historical and cognitive archaeology, he argues that there existed a political tradition that represented continuity and change.