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by the oppofite fex than chaflity, and we always prize 
thofe molt who are hardeft to coni'; at. Addifon , 
To Come by. To obtain ; to gain ; to acquire. This 
feems an irregular and improper ufe, but has very power- 
ert'ul authorities.—Tilings molt needful to preferve this 
life, are molt prompt and eafy for ali living creatures to 
come by. Hooker. —Are you not alhamed to inforce a poor 
widow to fo rough a courle to come by her own ? Shake/. 
Amidlt your train this unfeen judge will wait. 
Examine how you come by all your itate. Dryden. 
To Come in. To enter.—The fimple ideas, united in 
the fame lubjeit, areas perfectly diltinft as thofe that come 
in by different fenfes. Locke. —To comply; to yield; to 
hold out no longer.—If the arch-rebel Tyrone, in the 
time of thtfe wars, lliould offer to come in and fubmit him- 
felf to. her majetly, would you not have him received? 
Spenfer.—To arrive ata port, or place of rendezvous.—At 
what time our lecond fleet, which kept the narrow feas, 
was come in, and joined to our main fleet. Bacon. 
There was the Plymouth fquadron now come in, 
Which in the Streights lalt winter was abroad. Dryden. 
To become modilh; to be brought into ufe.—Silken gar¬ 
ments did not come in till late, and the ufe of them in men 
was often retrained by law. Arbuthnot. 
Then came rich cloaths and graceful a6lion in, 
Then inltruments were taught more moving notes. Rofc. 
To be an ingredient; to make part of a compofition — 
A generous contempt of that in which too many men place 
their happinefs mull come in to heighten his character. At- 
terbury —-To accrue from an ellate, trade, or otherwile, 
as gain —I had rather be mad with him that, when he 
had nothing, thought all the Ihips that came into the har¬ 
bour his; than with you that, when you have fo much 
coming in, think you have nothing. Suckling. —To be gain¬ 
ed in abundance: 
Sweetheart, we llinll be rich ere we depart, 
If fairings come thus plentifully in. Shakefpeare. 
To Come in for. To be early enough to obtain : taken 
from hunting, where the dogs that are flow get nothing. 
■—Shape and beauty, worth and education, wit and un- 
derftanding, gentle nature and agreeable humour, honour 
and virtue, were to come in for their (hare of fuch contrails. 
Temple. —The reft came in for fubfidies, whereof they funk 
coniiderable fums. Swift. 
To Come in to. To join with ; to bring help.—They 
marched to Weils, where the lord Audley, with whom 
their leaders had before fecret intelligence, came in to them; 
and was by them, with great gladnefs and cries of joy, 
accepted as their general. Bacon. 
To Come into. To comply with : to agree to.—The 
fame of their virtues will make men ready fo come into 
every thing that is done for the public good. Attcrbnry. 
To Come near. To approach ; to referable in excel¬ 
lence : a metaphor from races.—The whole atchieved 
with fuch admirable invention, that nothing ancient or 
modern feems to come near it. Temple. 
To Come of. To proceed, as a defeendant from ancef- 
tors.—Self-love is (o natural an infirmity, that it makes 
us partial even to thole that come of us, as well as our- 
felyes. H Efirange. 
0 /Priam’s royal race my mother came. Dryden. 
To proceed, as eifeils from their caufes.-—The hiccough 
comes of fulnels of meat, efpecialiy in children, which 
caufeth an extenfion of the ltomach. Bacon _This comes 
op judging by the eye, without conlulcing t he reafon. 
L' EJl range. 
To Come off. To deviate; to depart from a rule or 
direilion.—The figure of a bell partaketh of the pyfamis, 
but yet coming off and dilating more fuddenly. Bacon. — 
To efcape 5 to get free.—Thole that are in any lignal dan- 
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ger implore his aid ; and, if they come off flafe, call their 
deliverance a miracle. Addifon. 
I knew the foul enchanter, though difguis’d; 
Enter’d the very lime-twigs of his .pells, 
And yet came off. Milton. 
To end an affair; to take good or bad fortune.—Ever 
fince Spain and England have had any thing to debate 
one with the other, the Englifh upon all encounters, have 
come off with honour and the better. Bacon. 
Oh, bravely came we off. 
When with a volley of our needlels Ihot, 
After l'uch bloody toil, we bid good-night. Shakefpeare. 
To Come off from. To leave ; to forbear. — To come off 
from thefe grave difquifitions, I would clear the point by 
one inltance more. Felton. 
Fo Come on. To advance ; to make proglefs.—Things 
feem to come on apace to their former Hate. Bacon. 
So travellers, who walte the day. 
Noting at length the fetting fun, 
They mend their pace as night comes on. Granville. 
To advance to combat.—The great ordnance once dif- 
charged, the armies came faft on, and joined battle. Knolles, 
Rhymer, come on, and do the worfc you can ; 
I fear not you, nor yet a better man. Dryden. 
To thrive; to grow big; to grow.—It lliould feem by the 
experiments, both of the malt and of the rofes, that they 
will come far faller on in water than in earth ; for the nou- 
rifhment is eafier drawn out of water than out of earth. 
Bacon. 
Come on, poor babe; 
Some powerful fpirit inftruil the kites and ravens 
To be thy nurfes. Shakefpeare. 
To Come over. To repeat an ail; to revolt.—They 
3JB perpetually teazing their friends to come over to them. 
Addifon. —A man in changing his fide, not only makes 
himfelf hated by thofe he left, but is feldom heartily 
efleemed by thofe he comes over to. Addifon .— To rife in 
dillillation.—Perhaps alfo the phlegmatic liquor, that is 
■wont to come over in this analylis, may, at lead as to part 
of it, be produced by the operation of the fire. Boyle. 
To Come out. To be made public.—Before his book 
came out, I had undertaken the anfvver of feveral others. 
Stillingfleet. —I have been tedious; and, which is worfe, 
it comes oat from the firft draught, and uncorreiled. Dry¬ 
den.— To appear upon trial; to be difcovered. — It is in¬ 
deed tome out at lafi, that we are to look on the faints as 
inferior deities. StilFingfieet. — The weight of the denarius, 
or the feventh of a Roman ounce, comes out lixty-two 
grains and four fevenths. Arbuthnot. 
To Come out with. To give a vent to; to let fly.— 
Thofe great mailers of chymical arcana mud be provoked, 
before they will come out wiih them. Boyle. 
To Come to. To confent or yield.—What is this, If 
my parfon will not come to. Swift. —To amount to.—In 
the war, with the Turks, the emperor impofed fo great a 
cuftom upon all corn to be tranfported out of Sicily, that 
the very cuftoms came to as much as both the price of the 
corn and the freight together. Knolles. —Animals either 
feed upon vegetables immediately, or, which comes to the 
fame at laft, upon other animals which have fed upon 
them. Woodward. 
To Come to himfelf. To recover his fenfes.—He falls 
into fweet ecllafy of joy, wherein I ftiall leave him till he 
comes to himfelf. Temple. 
To Come to paj's. To be effeiled; to fall out — Tt 
cometh, we grant, many times to pafs, that the works of 
men being the fame, their drifts and purpofe therein are 
divers. Hooker. —How comes it to pafs, that fome iiquors 
cannot pierce into or moiften fome bodies, which are 
eafily pervious to other liquors ? Boyle. 
■ To Come up. To grow out of the ground.—Over-wet, 
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