a. [f. COME sb.1 + -LESS.] Without a comb (in various senses: see the sb.). Hence Comblessness.
1596. Shaks., Tam. Shr., I. i. 227. A comblesse Cocke.
1883. Chamb. Jrnl., 142. With a smooth and almost combless crest.
1880. Miss Broughton, Sec. Th., I. I. vi. 81. Absolute brushlessness, comblessness.
