slovodefinícia
To come
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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podobné slovodefinícia
the best is yet to come
(encz)		the best is yet to come,to nejlepší teprve přijde [fráz.] Pino
time to come
(encz)		time to come, n:
years to come
(encz)		years to come,budoucno Rostislav Svoboda
To come about
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
[1913 Webster]About \A*bout"\, adv.
1. On all sides; around.
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'Tis time to look about. --Shak.
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2. In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the
outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across.
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3. Here and there; around; in one place and another.
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Wandering about from house to house. --1 Tim. v.
13.
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4. Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in
quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as
high; -- also of quantity, number, time. "There fell . . .
about three thousand men." --Exod. xxii. 28.
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5. To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite
direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to
turn one's self about.
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To bring about, to cause to take place; to accomplish.

To come about, to occur; to take place. See under Come.


To go about, To set about, to undertake; to arrange; to
prepare. "Shall we set about some revels?" --Shak.

Round about, in every direction around.
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To come abroad
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
[1913 Webster]

From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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To come across
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
[1913 Webster]Across \A*cross"\ (#; 115), prep. [Pref. a- + cross: cf. F. en
croix. See Cross, n.]
From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction
opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a
river. --Dryden.
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To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally.
--Freeman.

To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a
region without following the roads.
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To come after
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
[1913 Webster]

Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
[1913 Webster]

We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
[1913 Webster]

They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]

To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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To come again
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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To come and go
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
[1913 Webster]

Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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To come at
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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To come away
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
[1913 Webster]

Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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To come between
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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To come by
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
[1913 Webster]By \By\ (b[imac]), prep. [OE. bi, AS. b[imac], big, near to, by,
of, from, after, according to; akin to OS. & OFries. bi, be,
D. bij, OHG. b[imac], G. bei, Goth. bi, and perh. Gr. 'amfi`.
E. prefix be- is orig. the same word. [root]203. See pref.
Be-.]
1. In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from;
close to; along with; as, come and sit by me.
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By foundation or by shady rivulet
He sought them both. --Milton.
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2. On; along; in traversing. Compare 5.
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Long labors both by sea and land he bore. --Dryden.
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By land, by water, they renew the charge. --Pope.
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3. Near to, while passing; hence, from one to the other side
of; past; as, to go by a church.
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4. Used in specifying adjacent dimensions; as, a cabin twenty
feet by forty.
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5. Against. [Obs.] --Tyndale [1. Cor. iv. 4].
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6. With, as means, way, process, etc.; through means of; with
aid of; through; through the act or agency of; as, a city
is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take
by force.
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Note: To the meaning of by, as denoting means or agency,
belong, more or less closely, most of the following
uses of the word:
(a) It points out the author and producer; as, "Waverley",
a novel by Sir W.Scott; a statue by Canova; a sonata
by Beethoven.
(b) In an oath or adjuration, it indicates the being or
thing appealed to as sanction; as, I affirm to you by
all that is sacred; he swears by his faith as a
Christian; no, by Heaven.
(c) According to; by direction, authority, or example of;
after; -- in such phrases as, it appears by his
account; ten o'clock by my watch; to live by rule; a
model to build by.
(d) At the rate of; according to the ratio or proportion
of; in the measure or quantity of; as, to sell cloth
by the yard, milk by the quart, eggs by the dozen,
meat by the pound; to board by the year.
(e) In comparison, it denotes the measure of excess or
deficiency; when anything is increased or diminished,
it indicates the measure of increase or diminution;
as, larger by a half; older by five years; to lessen
by a third.
(f) It expresses continuance or duration; during the
course of; within the period of; as, by day, by night.
(g) As soon as; not later than; near or at; -- used in
expressions of time; as, by this time the sun had
risen; he will be here by two o'clock.
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Note: In boxing the compass, by indicates a pint nearer to,
or towards, the next cardinal point; as, north by east,
i.e., a point towards the east from the north;
northeast by east, i.e., on point nearer the east than
northeast is.
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Note: With is used instead of by before the instrument with
which anything is done; as, to beat one with a stick;
the board was fastened by the carpenter with nails. But
there are many words which may be regarded as means or
processes, or, figuratively, as instruments; and
whether with or by shall be used with them is a matter
of arbitrary, and often, of unsettled usage; as, to a
reduce a town by famine; to consume stubble with fire;
he gained his purpose by flattery; he entertained them
with a story; he distressed us with or by a recital of
his sufferings. see With.
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By all means, most assuredly; without fail; certainly.

By and by.
(a) Close together (of place). [Obs.] "Two yonge knightes
liggyng [lying] by and by." --Chaucer.
(b) Immediately; at once. [Obs.] "When . . . persecution
ariseth because of the word, by and by he is
offended." --Matt. xiii. 21.
(c) Presently; pretty soon; before long.

Note: In this phrase, by seems to be used in the sense of
nearness in time, and to be repeated for the sake of
emphasis, and thus to be equivalent to "soon, and
soon," that is instantly; hence, -- less emphatically,
-- pretty soon, presently.

By one's self, with only one's self near; alone; solitary.

By the bye. See under Bye.

By the head (Naut.), having the bows lower than the stern;
-- said of a vessel when her head is lower in the water
than her stern. If her stern is lower, she is by the
stern.

By the lee, the situation of a vessel, going free, when she
has fallen off so much as to bring the wind round her
stern, and to take her sails aback on the other side.

By the run, to let go by the run, to let go altogether,
instead of slacking off.

By the way, by the bye; -- used to introduce an incidental
or secondary remark or subject.

Day by day, One by one, Piece by piece, etc., each day,
each one, each piece, etc., by itself singly or
separately; each severally.

To come by, to get possession of; to obtain.

To do by, to treat, to behave toward.

To set by, to value, to esteem.

To stand by, to aid, to support.
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Note: The common phrase good-by is equivalent to farewell,
and would be better written good-bye, as it is a
corruption of God be with you (b'w'ye).
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To come down
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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To come down upon
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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To come home
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
[1913 Webster]

Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]

2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
[1913 Webster]

When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
[1913 Webster]Home \Home\, adv.
1. To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come
home, carry home.
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2. Close; closely.
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How home the charge reaches us, has been made out.
--South.
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They come home to men's business and bosoms.
--Bacon.
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3. To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to
the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a
cartridge home.
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Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home. --Shak.
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Note: Home is often used in the formation of compound words,
many of which need no special definition; as,
home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc.
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To bring home. See under Bring.

To come home.
(a) To touch or affect personally. See under Come.
(b) (Naut.) To drag toward the vessel, instead of holding
firm, as the cable is shortened; -- said of an anchor.


To haul home the sheets of a sail (Naut.), to haul the
clews close to the sheave hole. --Totten.
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To come honestly by
(gcide)		Honestly \Hon"est*ly\, adv.
1. Honorably; becomingly; decently. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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2. In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live
honestly; to speak honestly. --Shak.
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To come honestly by.
(a) To get honestly.
(b) A circumlocution for to inherit; as, to come honestly
by a feature, a mental trait, a peculiarity.
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To come in
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
[1913 Webster]In \In\, adv.
1. Not out; within; inside. In, the preposition, becomes an
adverb by omission of its object, leaving it as the
representative of an adverbial phrase, the context
indicating what the omitted object is; as, he takes in the
situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the
Republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and
out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his side
was in (i. e., in the turn at the bat); he came in (i. e.,
into the house).
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Their vacation . . . falls in so pat with ours.
--Lamb.
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Note: The sails of a vessel are said, in nautical language,
to be in when they are furled, or when stowed. In
certain cases in has an adjectival sense; as, the in
train (i. e., the incoming train); compare up grade,
down grade, undertow, afterthought, etc.
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2. (Law) With privilege or possession; -- used to denote a
holding, possession, or seisin; as, in by descent; in by
purchase; in of the seisin of her husband. --Burrill.
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In and in breeding. See under Breeding.

In and out (Naut.), through and through; -- said of a
through bolt in a ship's side. --Knight.

To be in, to be at home; as, Mrs. A. is in.

To come in. See under Come.
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To come in at the hawse holes
(gcide)		Hawse \Hawse\ (h[add]z or h[add]s; 277), n. [Orig. a hawse hole,
or hole in the bow of the ship; cf. Icel. hals, h[=a]ls,
neck, part of the bows of a ship, AS. heals neck. See
Collar, and cf. Halse to embrace.]
1. A hawse hole. --Harris.
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2. (Naut.)
(a) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored
with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on
the port bow.
(b) The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend;
as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul
hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse.
(c) That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse
holes for the cables.
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Athwart hawse. See under Athwart.

Foul hawse, a hawse in which the cables cross each other,
or are twisted together.

Hawse block, a block used to stop up a hawse hole at sea;
-- called also hawse plug.

Hawse piece, one of the foremost timbers of a ship, through
which the hawse hole is cut.

Hawse plug. Same as Hawse block (above).

To come in at the hawse holes, to enter the naval service
at the lowest grade. [Cant]

To freshen the hawse, to veer out a little more cable and
bring the chafe and strain on another part.
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To come in for
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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To come into
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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To come into play
(gcide)		Play \Play\, n.
1. Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.
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2. Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement
or diversion; a game.
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John naturally loved rough play. --Arbuthnot.
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3. The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement,
or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as,
to lose a fortune in play.
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4. Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair
play; sword play; a play of wit. "The next who comes in
play." --Dryden.
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5. A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition
in which characters are represented by dialogue and
action.
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A play ought to be a just image of human nature.
--Dryden.
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6. The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy;
as, he attends ever play.
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7. Performance on an instrument of music.
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8. Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a
wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and
easy action. "To give them play, front and rear."
--Milton.
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The joints are let exactly into one another, that
they have no play between them. --Moxon.
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9. Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display;
scope; as, to give full play to mirth.
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Play actor, an actor of dramas. --Prynne.

Play debt, a gambling debt. --Arbuthnot.

Play pleasure, idle amusement. [Obs.] --Bacon.

A play upon words, the use of a word in such a way as to be
capable of double meaning; punning.

Play of colors, prismatic variation of colors.

To bring into play, To come into play, to bring or come
into use or exercise.

To hold in play, to keep occupied or employed.
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I, with two more to help me,
Will hold the foe in play. --Macaulay.
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To come it
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. t.
To carry through; to succeed in; as, you can't come any
tricks here. [Slang]
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To come it, to succeed in a trick of any sort. [Slang]
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To come it over
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
[1913 Webster]Over \O"ver\, adv.
1. From one side to another; from side to side; across;
crosswise; as, a board, or a tree, a foot over, i. e., a
foot in diameter.
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2. From one person or place to another regarded as on the
opposite side of a space or barrier; -- used with verbs of
motion; as, to sail over to England; to hand over the
money; to go over to the enemy. "We will pass over to
Gibeah." --Judges xix. 12. Also, with verbs of being: At,
or on, the opposite side; as, the boat is over.
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3. From beginning to end; throughout the course, extent, or
expanse of anything; as, to look over accounts, or a stock
of goods; a dress covered over with jewels.
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4. From inside to outside, above or across the brim.
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Good measure, pressed down . . . and running over.
--Luke vi. 38.
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5. Beyond a limit; hence, in excessive degree or quantity;
superfluously; with repetition; as, to do the whole work
over. "So over violent." --Dryden.
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He that gathered much had nothing over. --Ex. xvi.
18.
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6. In a manner to bring the under side to or towards the top;
as, to turn (one's self) over; to roll a stone over; to
turn over the leaves; to tip over a cart.
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7. Completed; at an end; beyond the limit of continuance;
finished; as, when will the play be over?. "Their distress
was over." --Macaulay. "The feast was over." --Sir W.
Scott.
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Note: Over, out, off, and similar adverbs, are often used in
the predicate with the sense and force of adjectives,
agreeing in this respect with the adverbs of place,
here, there, everywhere, nowhere; as, the games were
over; the play is over; the master was out; his hat is
off.
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Note: Over is much used in composition, with the same
significations that it has as a separate word; as in
overcast, overflow, to cast or flow so as to spread
over or cover; overhang, to hang above; overturn, to
turn so as to bring the underside towards the top;
overact, overreach, to act or reach beyond, implying
excess or superiority.
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All over.
(a) Over the whole; upon all parts; completely; as, he is
spatterd with mud all over.
(b) Wholly over; at an end; as, it is all over with him.


Over again, once more; with repetition; afresh; anew.
--Dryden.

Over against, opposite; in front. --Addison.

Over and above, in a manner, or degree, beyond what is
supposed, defined, or usual; besides; in addition; as, not
over and above well. "He . . . gained, over and above, the
good will of all people." --L' Estrange.

Over and over, repeatedly; again and again.

To boil over. See under Boil, v. i.

To come it over, To do over, To give over, etc. See
under Come, Do, Give, etc.

To throw over, to abandon; to betray. Cf. {To throw
overboard}, under Overboard.
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To come near
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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To come near to
(gcide)		Near \Near\ (n[=e]r), adv. [AS. ne['a]r, compar. of ne['a]h
nigh. See Nigh.]
1. At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree;
not remote; nigh.
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My wife! my traitress! let her not come near me.
--Milton.
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2. Nearly; almost; well-nigh. "Near twenty years ago."
--Shak. "Near a fortnight ago." --Addison.
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Near about the yearly value of the land. --Locke.
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3. Closely; intimately. --Shak.
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Far and near, at a distance and close by; throughout a
whole region.

To come near to, to want but little of; to approximate to.
"Such a sum he found would go near to ruin him."
--Addison.

Near the wind (Naut.), close to the wind; closehauled.
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To come nigh
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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To come of
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
[1913 Webster]

Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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To come off
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
[1913 Webster]

Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]

2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
[1913 Webster]

When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
[1913 Webster]

So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
[1913 Webster]

From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
[1913 Webster]

Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
[1913 Webster]

5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
[1913 Webster]

How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
[1913 Webster]

Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
[1913 Webster]

We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
[1913 Webster]

They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]

To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
[1913 Webster]Off \Off\ ([o^]f; 115), adv. [OE. of, orig. the same word as R.
of, prep., AS. of, adv. & prep. [root]194. See Of.]
In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:
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1. Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile
off.
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2. Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation;
as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off,
to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to
fly off, and the like.
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3. Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement,
interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the
pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.
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4. Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away;
as, to look off.
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5. Denoting opposition or negation. [Obs.]
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The questions no way touch upon puritanism, either
off or on. --Bp.
Sanderson.
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From off, off from; off. "A live coal . . . taken with the
tongs from off the altar." --Is. vi. 6.

Off and on.
(a) Not constantly; not regularly; now and then;
occasionally.
(b) (Naut.) On different tacks, now toward, and now away
from, the land.

To be off.
(a) To depart; to escape; as, he was off without a
moment's warning.
(b) To be abandoned, as an agreement or purpose; as, the
bet was declared to be off. [Colloq.]

To come off, To cut off, To fall off, To go off, etc.
See under Come, Cut, Fall, Go, etc.

To get off.
(a) To utter; to discharge; as, to get off a joke.
(b) To go away; to escape; as, to get off easily from a
trial. [Colloq.]

To take off To do a take-off on, To take off, to mimic,
lampoon, or impersonate.

To tell off
(a) (Mil.), to divide and practice a regiment or company
in the several formations, preparatory to marching to
the general parade for field exercises. --Farrow.
(b) to rebuke (a person) for an improper action; to scold;
to reprimand.

To be well off, to be in good condition.

To be ill off, To be badly off, to be in poor condition.
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To come off by
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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To come off from
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
[1913 Webster]

From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
[1913 Webster]

Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
[1913 Webster]

We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
[1913 Webster]

They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]

To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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To come off with flying colors
(gcide)		Flying \Fly"ing\, a. [From Fly, v. i.]
Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or
rapidly; intended for rapid movement.
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Flying army (Mil.) a body of cavalry and infantry, kept in
motion, to cover its own garrisons and to keep the enemy
in continual alarm. --Farrow.

Flying artillery (Mil.), artillery trained to rapid
evolutions, -- the men being either mounted or trained to
spring upon the guns and caissons when they change
position.

Flying bridge, Flying camp. See under Bridge, and
Camp.

Flying buttress (Arch.), a contrivance for taking up the
thrust of a roof or vault which can not be supported by
ordinary buttresses. It consists of a straight bar of
masonry, usually sloping, carried on an arch, and a solid
pier or buttress sufficient to receive the thrust. The
word is generally applied only to the straight bar with
supporting arch.

Flying colors, flags unfurled and waving in the air; hence:

To come off with flying colors, to be victorious; to
succeed thoroughly in an undertaking.

Flying doe (Zool.), a young female kangaroo.

Flying dragon.
(a) (Zool.) See Dragon, 6.
(b) A meteor. See under Dragon.

Flying Dutchman.
(a) A fabled Dutch mariner condemned for his crimes to sail
the seas till the day of judgment.
(b) A spectral ship.

Flying fish. (Zool.) See Flying fish, in the Vocabulary.


Flying fox (Zool.), see Flying fox in the vocabulary.

Flying frog (Zool.), either of two East Indian tree frogs
of the genus Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus nigrapalmatus
and Rhacophorus pardalis), having very large and broadly
webbed feet, which serve as parachutes, and enable it to
make very long leaps.

Flying gurnard (Zool.), a species of gurnard of the genus
Cephalacanthus or Dactylopterus, with very large
pectoral fins, said to be able to fly like the flying
fish, but not for so great a distance.

Note: Three species are known; that of the Atlantic is
Cephalacanthus volitans.

Flying jib (Naut.), a sail extended outside of the standing
jib, on the flying-jib boom.

Flying-jib boom (Naut.), an extension of the jib boom.

Flying kites (Naut.), light sails carried only in fine
weather.

Flying lemur. (Zool.) See Colugo.

Flying level (Civil Engin.), a reconnoissance level over
the course of a projected road, canal, etc.

Flying lizard. (Zool.) See Dragon, n. 6.

Flying machine, any apparatus for navigating through the
air, especially a heavier-than-air machine. -- {Flying
mouse} (Zool.), the opossum mouse (Acrobates pygm[ae]us), a
marsupial of Australia. Called also feathertail glider.

Note: It has lateral folds of skin, like the flying
squirrels, and a featherlike tail. -- Flying party
(Mil.), a body of soldiers detailed to hover about an
enemy. -- Flying phalanger (Zool.), one of several
species of small marsuupials of the genera Petaurus and
Belideus, of Australia and New Guinea, having lateral
folds like those of the flying squirrels. The sugar
squirrel (Belideus sciureus), and the ariel ({Belideus
ariel}), are the best known; -- called also {squirrel
petaurus} and flying squirrel. See Sugar squirrel. --
Flying pinion, the fly of a clock. -- Flying sap (Mil.),
the rapid construction of trenches (when the enemy's fire
of case shot precludes the method of simple trenching), by
means of gabions placed in juxtaposition and filled with
earth. -- Flying shot, a shot fired at a moving object,
as a bird on the wing. -- Flying spider. (Zool.) See
Ballooning spider. -- Flying squid (Zool.), an oceanic
squid (Ommastrephes Bartramii syn. {Sthenoteuthis
Bartramii}), abundant in the Gulf Stream, which is able to
leap out of the water with such force that it often falls
on the deck of a vessel. -- Flying squirrel (Zool.) See
Flying squirrel, in the Vocabulary. -- Flying start, a
start in a sailing race in which the signal is given while
the vessels are under way. -- Flying torch (Mil.), a
torch attached to a long staff and used for signaling at
night.
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To come on
(gcide)		Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n.
Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D.
komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]
1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
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Look, who comes yonder? --Shak.
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I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson.
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2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
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When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii.
16.
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Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii.
2.
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3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a
distance. "Thy kingdom come." --Matt. vi. 10.
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The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25.
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So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.
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4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the
act of another.
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From whence come wars? --James iv. 1.
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Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron.
xxix. 12.
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5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
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Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras.
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6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with
a predicate; as, to come untied.
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How come you thus estranged? --Shak.
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How come her eyes so bright? --Shak.
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Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the
participle as expressing a state or condition of the
subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the
completion of the action signified by the verb.
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Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
17.
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We are come off like Romans. --Shak.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
year. --Bryant.
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Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking
of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference
to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall
come home next week; he will come to your house to-day.
It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary,
indicative of approach to the action or state expressed
by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used
colloquially, with reference to a definite future time
approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two
years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
come.
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They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us
go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." --Matt.
xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste,
or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." --Milton.
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To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."
--Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." --Shak.

To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
"The wind is come about." --Shak.
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On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
--B. Jonson.

To come abroad.
(a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." --Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was
anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."
--Mark. iv. 22.

To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention
of those wars." --E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly
one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever
came across." --H. R. Haweis.

To come after.
(a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
book.

To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he
revived." --Judges. xv. 19. -

To come and go.
(a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The
color of the king doth come and go." --Shak.
(b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

To come at.
(a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
(b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
fury.

To come away, to part or depart.

To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
estrangement.

To come by.
(a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all
your state." --Dryden.
(b) To pass near or by way of.

To come down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To be humbled.

To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.

To come home.
(a) To return to one's house or family.
(b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
anchor.

To come in.
(a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh
in." --Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
(c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear
his coming in" --Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come
in till late." --Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
(g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
(h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well.
(i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
in next May. [U. S.]

To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for
subsidies." --Swift.

To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
[Colloq.]

To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems
to come near it." --Sir W. Temple.

To come of.
(a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my
mother came." --Dryden.
(b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by
the eye." --L'Estrange.

To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
well.
(d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.);
as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a
come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.]
(e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
(f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off?
(g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
separate.
(i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the
worst." --Calamy.

To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." --Felton.

To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
(b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." --Gen. xv. 14.
(b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is
indeed come out at last." --Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
affair come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
seasons ago.
(e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he
came out against the tariff.
(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
(a) To pass from one side or place to another.
"Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
them." --Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of God." --Rom.
iii. 23.

To come to.
(a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
(c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
(f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
--Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence:
(b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
[Colloq.]

To come to time.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume
the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over
and "time" is called; hence:
(b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.
[Colloq.]

To come together.
(a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.
--Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18.

To come true, to happen as predicted or expected.

To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.


To come up
(a) to ascend; to rise.
(b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question.
(c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a
plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion.

To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary
way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle
gently. --Totten.

To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

To come upon.
(a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for
support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid
treasure.
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