come 
(ft) Approach ; come at me : used in defiance or as n chal- 
lenge: as, come on ! I am not afraid of you. [Colloq ] 
Come your ways, come along; come hither. Shak. 
Cut and come again. See cut. To come (an infinitive 
qualifying preceding noun), to appear or arrive in the fu- 
ture: as, he was thinking of dangers to come. 
The prophetic soul 
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come. 
Shak., Sonnets, cvii. 
To come about, (a) To happen ; fall out ; come to pass 
arrive : as, how did these things come about' (ft) To turn ; 
change ; come round : as, the wind will come about from 
west to east ; the ship came about. 
On better thoughts and my urged reasons, 
They are came about and won to the true side. 
B. Jonson, Catiline, iv. 4. 
If you were just to let the servants forget to bring her 
dinner for three or four days, you can't conceive how she'd 
come about. Sheridan, The Rivals, i. 2. 
To come across. See across. To come amiss See 
mte. TO come and go, to advance and retire; move 
back and forth ; alternate ; appear and disappear. 
Also for worldly goods they come and no. as things not 
long proprietary to any body. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 38. 
The colour of the king doth come and go 
Between his purpose and his conscience. 
Shak., K.John, iv. 2. 
fle ! I'll swear her colour is natural : I have seen it 
come and go. Sheridan, School for Scandal, ii. 2. 
To come around. See to come round, below. TO come 
at, to reacli ; arrive within reach of ; gain ; come so near as 
to be able to take or possess ; attain : as, we prize those 
most who are hardest to come at ; to come at a true know- 
ledge of ourselves. 
How could a Physician tell the Vertue of that Simple 
unless he could come at it, to apply it? 
Selden, Table-Talk, p. S9. 
The Books . . . were lockt up in Wired cases, not to be 
come at without particular leave. 
Lister, Journey to Paris, p. 132. 
Tp come away, (a) Naut., to begin to move or yield : 
said of the anchor or anything that is being hauled (ft) 
To part or separate; break off: as, the branch came away 
in my hands, (c) To germinate or sprout; come on : as 
the wheat is coming away very well. [Eng.l To come 
by. (a) To pass near. 
The Duke thus syttynge, the sayde p[ro]cessyon come bu 
nym, and byganne to passe by aboute .vij. of the cloke. 
Sir Jt. Ouylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 9. 
(ft) To obtain ; gain ; acquire. 
I, as I neuer desired the title, so haue I neglected the 
meanes to come by it. Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie. 
In Symoniacall purchases he thinks his Soule goes in the 
bargame, and is loath to come by promotion so deare 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Oraue Diuine. 
Examine how you came by all your state. 
Dryden, Aurengzebe. 
To come down, (a) Literally, to descend. 
In comynge doun fro the Mount of Olyvete is the nlace 
where oure lord wepte upon Jerusalem. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 97. 
We came down into the valley to the bed of the brook 
Kedron, which is but a lew paces over, and in many parts 
the valley itself is no wider. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 21. 
(ft) To be transmitted. 
The fact and circumstances of Darius's voyage are come 
down to us, and by these very same means. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 466. 
(e) Figuratively, to be humbled or abased : as his pride 
must come down. 
Your principalities shall come down. Jer. xiii. 18. 
(a) Theat., to advance nearer to the footlights: opposed 
to to go up that is, to move away from the footlights 
TO come down on or upon, to descend suddenly upon 
pounce upon; treat with severity; take to task- rate' 
soundly ; make a violent attack upon. 
1120 
The Abbey of Glastonbury, on which Henry VIII In the 
language of our day, came down so heavily. 
a. James, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 61. 
To come down with, to pay over; lay down, as in pay- 
ment. [C'olloq.] 
Little did he foresee, when he said, "All is but dust !" 
now soon he would come down with his own. Dickens. 
To come down with the dust, to pay the money 
[Slang.]-To come high or low, to be expensive or cheap- 
cost much or little. - To come home, (a) To move toward 
or reach one s home or dwelling-place, (b) Naut (1) To 
drag or slip through the ground : said of an anchor in heav- 
ng up. (2) To reach the place intended, as a sail in hoist- 
ing etc. () To go to the heart or the feelings ; touch the 
feelings, interest, sympathies, or reason : with to: as his 
appeal came home to all. 
Come home to men's business and bosoms. 
Bacon, Ded. of Essays (ed. 1625). 
To come In. (a) To enter, as into an inclosure or a port 
make an entrance ; appear, as upon a scene. 
tiif MM 11 ,i the < WeU ~ known fact that in geological trea- 
ses, published not many years ago, mammals were always 
spoken of as havmgabruptly come in at the commencement 
of the tertiary series. Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 288. 
(ft) To submit to terms ; yield. 
If the arch-rebel Tyrone . . . should offer to come in. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
Many Citties which till that time would not bend, gave 
Hostages, admitted Garrisons, and came in voluntarily 
Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. 
Since this new preaching hath come in, there hath been 
much sedition. Latimer, Sermon bel. Edw. VI., 1550. 
It [the fruit of the date] is esteem'd of a hot nature and 
as it comes in during the winter, being ripe in November' 
providence seems to have design'd it as a warm food dur- 
ing the cold season, to comfort the stomach. 
Pococke, Description of the East, I. 206. 
Silken garments did not come in till late. 
Arbuthnot, Anc. Coins. 
(d) To enter as an ingredient or part ol a compound thing. 
A generous contempt ol that in which too many men 
place their happiness must come in to heighten his char- 
acter - Bp. Atterburu. 
II the law is too mild, private vengeance comes in. 
Emerson, Compensation. 
(e) To accrue from cultivation, an industry, or otherwise 
as profit : as, il the corn comes in well, we shall have a 
supply without importation ; the crops came in, light. 
Sweet hearts, we shall be rich ere we depart 
If fairings come thus plentifully in. 
Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 
(/) To calve ; foal : said of cows and mares ru S 1 To 
come in clipping-time. See clippiny-time -To come 
in for, to arrive in time to take ; be in the way of obtain- 
ing; get ; unite with others in getting a share or part of. 
Let God be honoured as he ought to be, let Religion 
come in for its share among all the things which deserve 
encouragement. Stillingfleet, Sermons 1,1. vil? 
The rest came in for subsidies. Swift. 
They come in for their share of political guilt. Addition. 
To come Into, (a) To join with ; bring help to ; also and 
more generally, to agree to; comply with ; give in one's 
adhesion to; unite with others in adopting: as to come 
into a measure or scheme. 
Ready to come in to everything that is done for the pub- 
Ilck BOOd. Bp. Atterbury. 
(b) To acquire by inheritance or bequest : as, to come into 
an estate -To come Into one's head, to occur to one's 
mind accidentally. 
Dear Dick, howe'er it comes into his head 
Believes as firmly as he does his Creed ' 
That you and I, Sir, are extremely great. 
Prior, To Mr. Harley. 
To come in unto, to lie carnally with. Gen. xxxviii 16 
To come In with, to join in suddenly with; break iii 
with ; interrupt by means of : as, he came in with a laugh 
-To come near or nigh, to approach in place; hence] 
metaphorically, to approach in quality or degree offer 
or bear comparison with ; resemble. 
Nothing ancient or modern seems to come near it 
Sir W. Temple. 
To come of. (a) To issue from ; proceed from, as a de- 
scendant. 
Adam and alle that comen o/him. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 12. 
Ahur,o/whom came the Assyrians. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 44. 
Of Priam's royal race my mother came. 
(ft)Tore.ultfrom. Dryden, JEuM. 
There can no falsehood come of loving her 
Beau, and Fl., King and No King, iii. 1. 
To come Of age, to attain to the age of legal majority 
See age, 3.-TO come off. (a) To depart; move or turn 
away; withdraw; retreat. 
We might have thought the Jews when they had seen 
the destruction ol Jerusalem would have come off from 
their obstinacy. Stillingfleet, Sermons, I. viii. 
(b) To escape ; get free. 
II they come o/safe, call their deliverance a miracle. 
Addison, Travels in Italy. 
(c) To emerge from some undertaking or transaction 
issue ; get out or away : as, to come off with honor or die- 
I know not what danger I undergo by this exploit ; 
pray heaven I come well off! 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iv. 9. 
No man gines better satistaction at the,flrst, and come* 
off more with the Elogie ol a kind Gentleman, till you 
know him better, and then you know him for nothing 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Complementall Man. 
(d) Tp happen ; take place : as, the match comes of on 
Tuesday, (et) To pay over ; settle up. 
We hear you are lull of crowns 
Will you come off, sir? Massinger. 
(f) To leave the shore and approach a ship, as persons in 
a boat ; also, similarly, to leave a ship lor the shore or lor 
another ship : as, the captain came off in his gig. 
J^LT,!T't a * a ! n l, a ? d . ma( l e I*" 8 J or ' h e P<*>Ple to 
come 
I'll bring him the best 'parel that I have, 
Come an 't what will. Shak., Lear, iv. 1. 
To come on one for (something), to hold him liable or 
responsible for (it) ; depend upon him for (it). 
The moment Sir Oliver dies, you know, you would come 
on me for the money. Sheridan, School lor Scandal, iii. 3. 
To come out. (a) To emerge ; depart. 
Come nut at her, my people, that ye be not partakers of 
her sins. Rev xvjii 4 
(ft) To become public ; appear ; be published ; come to 
knowledge or notice: as, the truth has come out at last- 
this book has just come out. 
The Gazettes come out but once a week and but lew 
people buy them. Lister, Journey to Paris, p. 22. 
To read them "as they came out " in their evening paper. 
Contemporary Rev., LII. 480. 
(f) To express one's sell vigorously ; throw off reserve and 
declare one's sell ; make an impression : as, he came out 
strong. [Colloq. ] (d) To be introduced to general society 
in a special sense, in England, to be presented at court : 
as, Miss B came out last season, (e) To appear alter 
being clouded or obscured : as, the rain stopped and the 
sun came. out. (f) To turn, out to be; result from calcu- 
lation. 
The weight of the denarius . . . comes out sixty-two 
grains and lour-sevenths. Arbuthnot, Anc. Coins. 
To come out Of. (a) To come lorth or issue from figur- 
atively, to get through with ; come to the end oi : as, to 
come out of prison ; he has come out of that affair very 
Unclean spirits . . . came out of many that were pos- 
sessed with them. Acts viii. 7. 
(ft) To be the issue or descendant of. 
Kings shall come out of thee. Gen. xvii. 6. 
To come out well or 111, to result favorably or unfavor- 
ably ; prove to be good or bad, distinct or blurred, etc as 
an undertaking, a print, or the like. To come out with 
to give publicity to ; disclose. To come over A With' 
over as an adverb. In distillation, to rise and pass' over 
as vapor. 
Toluene, lor example, nearly always comes over with 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XXV. 205. 
B. With over as a preposition, (a) To pass above or 
across or from one side to another; traverse : as, to come 
over a bridge or a road. 
Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. Josh. iv. 22. 
(ft) To pass from an opposing party, side, or army to that 
one to which the speaker belongs, (c) To get the better 
of ; circumvent ; overcome ; wheedle ; cajole : as you won't 
come over me in that way. [Colloq.] 
What a rogue's this ! 
How cunningly he came over us ! 
Middleton, Chaste Maid, a 2. 
TO come round or around. A. With round OT around 
as an adverb, (a) To happen in due course ; be lulfllled 
come to pass. 
Farewell, my sorrows, and, my tears, take truce 
My wishes are come round. 
Fletcher (and another). Bloody Brother, v. 2. 
" O od be thank'd ! " said Alice the nurse, 
lhat all comes round so just and lair." 
Tennyson, Lady Clare. 
(ft) To become favorable or reconciled after opposition or 
hostility:, as, on second thought he will lorget his anger 
and come round, (c) To recover ; revive, as alter lainting 
regain one s lormer state of health. 
B. With round or around as a preposition. To wheedle 
or get the better of by wheedling. 
The governess had come round everybody. 
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xl. 
To come short, to fail ; be inadequate. 
The highth and depth of thy eternal ways 
All human thoughts come short, Supreme ol things ! 
Milton, P. L., viii. 414. 
To come short Of, to lail to reach or accomplish attain 
or obtain less than is desired. 
Men generally come short of themselves when they strive 
to out-doe themselves. 
Bacon, Advancement ol Learning, Prel., p. xi. 
All have sinned and come short of the glory ol God. 
Rom. iii. 23. 
Why, he was afraid that he should come short of whither 
he had a desire to go. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, p. 294. 
j-fvttHi~irtiKT . v OVflCfeS II i 114 
tot) Be quick ! hurry up ! 
Come of, and let me ryden hastily. 
Chaucer, Friar's Tale, 1. 304. 
Ayenie [again] to werk am I sette, and I haste 
Come of, let see who be the sharppe penne. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 140. 
(A) To cease (fooling, flattering, chaffing, or humbugging); 
ceTit'sta U y s n -' 6 imperative: as ' oh . <" // [Re- 
handsomely. ^^ ' 
In th' old justice's suit, whom we robb'd lately 
Will come off roundly, we'll set him free too. 
Middleton, The Widow, Iv. 2. 
Did Marwood come off roundly with his wages? 
Shirley, The Wedding, iv. 4. 
To come on. (a) To advance ; make progress ; thrive ; 
flourish : as, the plants are coming on ; the young man 
comes on well in his studies, (ftt) To result from ; come ol 
To come to. A. With to as an adverb, (of) To come to 
terms; consent; yield. 
What is this, ii my parson will not come to } Swift. 
(ft) To recover ; come round ; revive, especially alter laint- 
ing. (c) Naut., to turn the head nearer to the wind as 
the ship is coming to. 
When it came to, the pilot was deceived, and said Lord 
be mercilul to us, my eyes never saw this place belore 
N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 47. 
(d) la falconry, to begin to get tame : said ol a hawk. 
B. With to as a preposition, (a) To reach ; attain ; re- 
sult in : as, to come to rain, to good, to luck. 
Thou Wear'st what wealth (he says, spend what thou canst) 
Thou rt like to come to. B. Jonson, Alchemist, i. 1. 
P. Hen. Trust me, I am exceeding weary. 
Pains. Is it come to that ? I had thought weariness durst 
not have attached one ol so high blood. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 2. 
If it come to prohibiting, there is not ought more likely 
to be prohibited then truth Itself. 
Milton, Areopagitica, p. 64. 
(ft) To lall or pass to. 
The other hall 
Comes to the privy coffer ol the state 
Sluik., M. ol V., iv. 1. 
