come 
(r) To amount to : as, the taxes com? to a large sum. 
Anil now HI tell thee I have promised him 
As much an marriage rimf* in, and I lose 
Mv honour, if my I*"" i-ceciie* tlie canvas. 
Shirley, The Brothers, II. 1. 
(dt) To become ; come to be. 
This Town of Hamburgh from Society of Brewers la 
I'niiii' in a huge ealtliy I'lace. /luirrll, Letters, I. vi. 4. 
To come to anchor (formerly In an anchor), to anchor ; 
bring up at anrli'ir. 
We found It an Island of (1. myles In compaase : within 
league of it we came to ait anchor, ami went on shore for 
wood and water. 
Quoted iii Capi. John Smith'* True Travels, I. 1 in. 
We came to an anchor in the port of Siht. 
BrUM, Soinre of the Nile. I. MS. 
To come to blows, s.e w<nc. -To come to close 
quarters Sec i-fiw-. To come to grief, hand, heel, 
ete. See the nouns. TO come to nothing, to fail ut- 
terly; Kk' 1 no result; prove of no value: as, our efforts 
came to within i. 
eU 
ohl 
My going up now to the City was In order to have his (the 
lief of the Factory'" I assistance in the Voyage to Cochin- 
lina, Chninpa, or ramlmilia, which Captain NYcldoll had 
mtrfved for me; nor was it his fault that It came to no- 
ing. Dtniifrifr, Voyages, II. 1. 14. 
To come to one's self. (") T. < recover one's senses or 
consciousness; revive, lu from a swoon. 
When I wan a little come to myself again, I asked him 
wherefore he served me so? 
Banyan, Pilgrim's Progress, p. 13!>. 
(6) To resume the exercise of right reason after a period 
of folly. 
When he cam? In himxf/f, he said, How many hired ser- 
vants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, iirnl I 
perish with hunger ! Luke xv. 17. 
To come to pass, to happen ; fall out ; be brought about. 
Bvt It came to passe, when fortune fled farre from the 
Greekes and Latines, & that their townes florished no 
more in tratlcke, nor their Vntuersities in learning, as 
they had done continuing those Monarchies. 
Puttenhain, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 7. 
And It shall come to pan, If t hoi i shalt hearken diligently 
unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do 
all his commandments which I command thee this day, 
that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all the 
nations of the earth. Deut. xxviii. 1. 
How comes It to pass, that . . . you now adventure to 
discover your self? Shirley, Grateful Servant, Hi. 4. 
To come to the front. See front. To come to time, 
to be ready to go on with a pugilistic contest when " time ' 
is called ; hence, to do what is expected of one ; face diffi- 
culties; refuse to back out. (Colloq. I To come true, 
to be verified. TO come up. (a) To ascend ; rise. 
1121 
Often with an indHiniti< '' 
In his sleeves, which were long, 
lie had tent\-four packs, 
Which was i"llg. 
Km Hartf. Plain Language from Truthful James. 
3. Natit., to Blacken: with up: as, to conn up 
the tackle-fall. 
Never come tip all your lower rigging at sea. 
Seamanship, p. 490. 
To come up the capstan, to turn the cap.-tan t!> 
trary way. for the pur|se of slackening the cable on it. 
come (kum), . [{ ME. OMM, cwM| eoodag, < 
AS. rijnn- = ( >S. /.-//mi = O1IG. chumi, clmm* . 
(//n mi, coming, = Icel. k<i/>i, l.rmmt = Dan. 
komme; from the verb.] If. Coming; arrival. 
But yee cast at his comtne to kee[M-n hym hence, 
Vee shall lose your lond A your life also. 
Alisaunder of Maccdmnr (K. K. T. S.), 1. 473. 
2. [Also coom ; pron. dial, kom or kom.] The 
point of a radicle of malted grain, which, after 
kiln-crying, drops off during the process of 
turning; in the plural, malt-dust. They form 
an excellent manure. Also called dm * . 
come-at-ability (kum-at-a-bil'i-ti), it. [< come- 
comely 
a conch, a dining-cowh), both connected with 
u Ix-cl, I.'I'IKI:-, put to sleep, < KtioOai, lie 
ilnwn, akin to E. Inline), + aotduf, contr. v^of, 
liii-iitian uFiA'jr, singing, a singer, awAi/, contr. 
y?>i], a song: see Comus and ode.] 1. That 
branch of the drama which addresses itself pri- 
iv to the BCIISO of the humorous or the ri- 
diculous: opposed to Iniyi-ily, which appeals to 
the more serioub and profound emotion*. See 
ilnnnii and trntji-ily. 
Comedy laccor.liiiK I" Ariitotlr ], on the oilier luiiil. Imi- 
tates actions of Inferior interest ('neither painful i. 
structive "), and eariicd on by character* whose vices are 
of a ridiculous kind. A. W. Ward, Lug. Dram. Lit., I. 89. 
2. In a restricted sense, a form of the drama 
which is humorous without being broadly or 
grossly comical : distinguished from farce. 
Comedy presents us with tin- imp. rfectlons of human 
nature: fan-e entertains us with what U monstrous snd 
i ioal ; the one causes laughter In those who can 
judge of men and manners, by the lively representation 
of their folly and corruption ; the other produces the same 
effect in those who can judge of neither ; and that only by 
Its extravagancies. f>r)/</>-, Prcf. to Mock Astrologer. 
3. A dramatic composition written in the stylo 
, __________ _________ ,, .. . 
at-able: see -bility.] Att'uinableness; accessi- of comedy ; a comic play or drama. Hence 
bility. Sterne. [Colloq. and humorous.] 4. A humorous or comic incident or series of 
come-at-able (kmn-at'a-bl), a. [< n>mr + <it + incidents in real life. 
-nlilr. } Capable of being approached or come comelily (kum'li-li), adv. [< ME. comelili, eom- 
at ; that may be reached, attained, or procured, tyli/, eomflely ; < comely, a., + -fy 2 .] In a come- 
[Colloq. ana humorous.] ly or suitable or decent manner. Sherwood. 
comedian (ko-me'di-an), n. [< F. mmedien (= [Bare.] 
I saugh hir daunce so catiu-l'ty. 
Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 847. 
____ comeliness (kum'li-nes), ft. [< comely + -ness.'] 
or GT.' KufitK&f, L. comicus: see comic, comedy.'] The quality_of being comely, (a) Becomlngness ; 
1. One who acts or plays parts in a comic 
drama, whether male or female. 2. An actor 
or player generally. 
The quick comedian* 
Extemporally will stage us, and present 
Our Alexandrian revels. Shalt., A. and C., T. 2. 
An adventurerof versatile parts; sharper; coiner; false 
witness; sham ball; dancing master; buffoon; poet; co- 
median. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vii. 
3. A writer of comedy; a comic dramatist. 
Milton. [Now rare.] 
Scaliger wllleth us to admire Plautus as a comedian. 
Peacham, Of Poetry- 
suitableness; fltne 
For eumelineti Is a disposing fair 
Of things and actions In fi 
fit time and place. 
Sir ,/. Daniel, Dancing. 
The Social Gilds were founded upon the wide basis of 
brotherly aid and moral comelinea, without distinction 
(unless expressly specified) of calling or class, and com- 
prehended; a great variety of object*. 
Enylih Gildt (E. E. T. S.), Int, p. xxvtl. 
(6) Handsomeness ; gracefulness of form or feature ; pleas- 
ing apjiearance, especially of the person or of any part of It. 
It Is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, 
Strength, comelintM of shape, or amplest merit, 
That woman's love can win or long inherit 
Hilton, S. A., L 1011. 
comedic (ko-me'dik), a. [< comedy + -ic.] Per- 
tftining or of the nature of comedy. [Rare.] 
Quarterly Her. 
[F., fem. of 
He that cometh up out of the midst of the pit. 
Isa. 
(b) To come forward for discussion or action ; arise, (c) Our best comedic dramas. 
To grow ; spring up, as a plant. comedienne (ko-ma-di-en'), n. 
It shall not be pruned, nor digged ; but there shall come comddicn : see comedian.] 
up briers and thorns. Isa. v. 6. , yg comedy _ 
same as to come to. (e) To come Into use or com .e<lietta (ko-ma-di-et'tS), , 
commedia, a comedy : see comedy.] A dramatic 
composition of the comic class, but not so 
Ills face, as I grant, In spite of spite, 
Has a broad-blown comelineu, red and white. 
Teiinynon, Maud, xlii. 
It Is the beauty of the great economy of the world that 
makes his [the farmer's) comelineu. Emerton, Farming. 
fashion. 
Since gentlemen came up. Shat., 2 Hen. VI., Iv. 2. 
I had on a gold cable hatband, then new come up, which 
I wore about a murrey French hat I had. 
B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, iv. 4. 
TO come upon, (a) To happen on ; fall in with ; as, to 
come upon some friends lu the park. (M) To occur to. 
This day It cam* upon me to write to Joanna Eleonora 
Malane, the noble young woman at Franckfort. 
Penn, Travels in Holland, etc. 
(c) To fall upon ; attack or assail. 
They came upon us In the night, 
And brake my bower and slew my knight. 
Scoff, Waverley, Ixiil. 
To come upon the town, (at) To make one's debut in 
town society or as a man about town. 
Five-and-twenly years ago Hie young Earl of Kew came 
upon the town, which siieedily rang with the feats of his 
lordship. Thackeray, Newcomes, x. 
(6) To become a charge upon the public for support, as In 
a poorhonse : as, she was so poor she feared she would 
have to come upon the foiwi. Also to come upon the parish. 
To come up to, to attain to ; amount to. 
An actress who comelingt(kum'ling).. [< ME. cameling, cume- 
linij, cumting (= OHG. chomeling, chumelinc), an 
[It., dim. of 
much elaborated as a regular comedy, and gen- 
erally consisting of one or at most two acts. 
Giving his comedietta or farce as a lever du rideau. 
The American, VII. 173. 
comediographert (ko-me-di-og'ra-fer), n. [< 
Gr. nafHtrfioypaipoc,, a comic writer, < KU/II 
comedy, + ypafytiv, write.] A writer of come- 
dies. Coles, 1717. 
comedo (kom 'e -do), .; pi. comedones (kom- 
c-do'nez). [L., a glutton, < comedere, eat up, 
< com-( intensive) + cdere = 'E. eat.] A small, 
worm-like, black-tipped mass, such as may 
sometimes be squeezed out of the sebaceous 
follicles of the face. It is usually simply the re- 
tained secretion of the morbid gland, but may include, 
contain, or be caused by the presence of a minute acarid, 
Demodex Jolliculorum. 
Comedones are also well exemplified in the small, punc- 
tate, blackish points which exist here and there upon the 
forehead and elsewhere. Duhring, Skin Diseases, pi. E. 
Same as comedo. 
come ySXSSSS? " ity .S" w. T., n. i. comedon (kom'e-don), n. 
To come up to the mark, scratch, or chalk, to come 
to some mark or line where one ought to stand, especially 
lo Ihe scratch or line from which a race starts ; hence, to 
meet one's engagements ; do what one is expected to do. 
To come up with, (a) To overtake in following or pur 
suit. 
We came up with a party of men, who belonged to the 
sheik of Samwata. 
Pocockf, Description of the East, II. i. 77. - . ,. . ... 
; 6) To get even with ; pay off., score u.n , punish^ '^dy (kome-da ^^pl. ^ *c, (^ 
incomer, comer, < comen, cumen, come, 
A comer ; an incomer ; a new-comer ; a stranger. 
To cumljmaft do yee right, na suike [deceive]. 
For ouilum war yee seluen slike. 
Cursor ilundi, I. 67S5. 
So that within a whyle they began to molest the home- 
lings (for so I find the word Indlgena to be Englished In 
an old book that I have, wherein advena is translated also 
> a comeliny). lloUnslted. 
a comely (kum'li), a. [Early mod. E. also cam- 
He ; < ME. comly, citnily, cumlich, < AS. cymlic 
(= MD. komlick, komelick = MHO. komelih, 
gomelih), fit, comely, < cyme, fit, suitable, come- 
ly (<cum<tn, come), +-Kc, -ly 1 . For the thought, 
cf. become, suit, becoming, suitable, comely, and 
convenient, < L. convenience, agreeing, suit- 
able, convenient, < convenire, come together: 
both become and convenient containing ult. the 
element come (= L. venire): see become, conve- 
nient.] 1. Decent; suitable; proper; becoming; 
suited to time, place, circumstances, or persons, 
xit blame I no bume to be, as him oujte, 
In comliche clothlnge as his stall axith. 
Richard the Reddest, ill. 174. 
As long ago as the middle of the 17th century II was 
known that an animal inhabited the comedon, a hard, in- 
flamed tubercle which appears on the forehead and skin, 
especially of young men. Anvr. Cyc., VI. 694. 
comedones, . Plural of comedo. 
come-down (kum'doun), n. A fall or downfall, 
in a figurative sense ; a sudden change for the 
worse in one's circumstances ; a set-back. 
(41 
lolly or" mischief) : as, you will get i 
When all comes to all. See all. 
commedy 
nen au comes to an. aee ow. Dan. komedie = Sw. komedi. < OF. comedie, F. 
II. tr<tns._l. To become; befit; suit. [Now comedie = Pr. Sp. Pg. comedia = It. commedia, 
< L. comcedia, < Gr. Ku/tuiia, a comedy, < nufu?- 
rorche. ioc, Boeotian Ku//afw)6f (> L. comosdus), a comic 
only prov. Eng.] 
No suche idell games It ne cometh the to 
Life of St. Cuthbert, quoted in Warton's Hist Eng. Poetry, actor, a comic writer, < nu/iof, a festival, fes- 
'* 14 ' tal procession, carousal, revel (otherwise < Mi- 
act ; practise ; play the part of. /in, a village, which is prob. akin to KU^OC, the 
2. To do; 
[Slang.] 
So you think to come the noble Lord over me. Lever. 
Don't come tricks here. Slang Diet. 
71 
festival icUjUof originating ev K&/UU?,, in villages, 
or rather perhaps because icauof was orig. a 
banquet (at which the guests reclined; cf. n/.ivti, 
Is It comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered ? 
1 Cor. xi. IS. 
Bashful sincerity, and comely love. 
Shot., Much Ado, iv. 1. 
The comely Prostrations of the Body, with Genuflection, 
and other Acts of Humility In time of divine Service, are 
very Exemplary. Homll, Letters, Iv. So. 
2. Handsome ; graceful ; symmetrical ; pleas- 
ing in appearance : said of tne person or of any 
part of it, and also of things. 
He led him to a comly hille. 
The Erthe opened, and In thay yodf. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 99. 
A cumlif countenance, with a goodlie stature, geueth 
credit to learning. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 89. 
I have seen a son of Jesse, ... a comely person. 
1 Sam. xrt 18, 
You would persuade me that yon are old and ugly 
nol at all ; on the contrary, when well-dressed and cheer- 
ful, you are very comely Indeed. 
Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, xrv. 
=8yn. 2. Handsome, Pretty, etc. See btaut\ful. 
