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3. <def>To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or form a distance.</def> "Thy kingdom come."

Matt. vi. 10.

<blockquote>The hour is comming, and now is. John. v. 25.</blockquote>

<blockquote>So quik bright things come to confusion. Shak.</blockquote>

4. <def>To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the act of another.</def>

<blockquote>From whence come wars? James iv. 1.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Both riches and honor come of thee! Chron. xxix. 12.</blockquote>

5. <def>To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.

<blockquote>Then butter does refuse to come. Hudibras.</blockquote>

6. <def>To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with a predicate; <as>as, to <ex>come</ex> united</as>.</def>

<blockquote>How come you thus estranged? Shak.</blockquote>

<blockquote>How come her eyes so bright? Shak.</blockquote>

<note>&hand; Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to be gives 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.</note>

<blockquote>Think not that I am come to destroy. Matt. v. 17.</blockquote>

<blockquote>We are come off like Romans. Shak.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year. Bryant.</blockquote>

<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 auxilliary; as, it will be two years, come next Christmas; <it>i. e.</it>, when Christmas shall come.

<blockquote>They were cried In meeting, come next Sunday. Lowell.</blockquote>

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.</note>

<cs><col>To come</col>, <cd>yet to arrive, future. "In times to come."</cd> Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." Shak. -- <col>To come about</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as, how did these things come about?</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.</cd> "The wind is come about." Shak.

<blockquote>On better thoughts, and my urged reasons, They are come about, and won to the true side. B. Jonson.</blockquote>

-- <col>To come abroad</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To move or be away from one's home or country.</cd> "Am come abroad to see the world." Shak. <sd>(b)</sd> To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad." Mark. iv. 22. -- <col>To come across</col>, <cd>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. Heweis. -- <col>To come after</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To follow.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a book.</cd> -- <col>To come again</col>, <cd>to return</cd>. "His spirit came again and he revived." Judges. xv. 19.

-- <col>To come and go</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate.</cd> "The color of the king doth come and go." Shak. <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Mech.)</fld> <cd>To play backward and forward.</cd> -- <col>To come at</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to come at a true knowledge of ourselves.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with fury.</cd> -- <col>To come away</col>, <cd>to part or depart</cd>. -- <col>To come between</col>, <cd>to interverne; to separate; hence, to cause estrangement</cd>. -- <col>To come by</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To obtain, gain, acquire.</cd> "Examine how you came by all your state." Dryden. <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To pass near or by way of.</cd> -- <col>To come down</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To descend.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To be humbled.</cd> -- <col>To come down upon</col>, <cd>to call to account, to reprimand.</cd> [Colloq.] Dickens. -- <col>To come home</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To retuen to one's house or family.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To come close; to press closely; to touch the feelings, interest, or reason.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> (Naut.) <cd>To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an anchor.</cd> -- <col>To come in</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To enter, as a town, house, etc.</cd> "The thief cometh in." Hos. vii. 1. <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.</cd> <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln came in.</cd> <sd>(d)</sd> To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear his coming in" Massinger. <sd>(e)</sd> <cd>To be brought into use.</cd> "Silken garments did not come in till late." Arbuthnot. <sd>(f)</sd> <cd>To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.</cd> <sd>(g)</sd> <cd>To accrue as gain from any business or investment.</cd> <sd>(h)</sd> <cd>To mature and yield a harvest; <as>as, the crops <ex>come in</ex> well</as>.</cd> <sd>(i)</sd> <cd>To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto.</cd> Gen. xxxviii. 16. <sd>(j)</sd> <cd>To have young; to bring forth; <as>as, the cow will <ex>come in</ex> next May</as>.</cd> [U. S.] -- <col>To come in for</col>, <cd>to claim or receive.</cd> "The rest came in for subsidies." Swift. -- <col>To come into</col>, <cd>to join with; to take part in; to agree to; to comply with; <as>as, to <ex>come into</ex> a party or scheme</as></cd>. -- <col>To come it ever</col>, <cd>to hoodwink; to get the advantage of</cd>. [Colloq.] -- <mcol><col>To come near</col> <it>or</it> <col>nigh</col></mcol>, <cd>to approach in place or quality to be equal to.</cd> "Nothing ancient or modern seems to come near it." Sir W. Temple. -- <col>To come of</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To descend or spring from.</cd> "Of Priam's royal race my mother came." Dryden. <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To result or follow from.</cd> "This comes of judging by the eye." L'Estrange. -- <col>To come off</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To depart or pass off from.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To get free; to get away; to escape.</cd> <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off well.</cd> <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>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.</cd> [Colloq.] <sd>(e)</sd> <cd>To pay over; to give.</cd> [Obs.] <sd>(f)</sd> <cd>To take place; to happen; <as>as, when does the race <ex>come off</ex>?</as></cd> <sd>(g)</sd> <cd>To be or become after some delay; <as>as, the weather <ex>came off</ex> very fine</as>.</cd> <sd>(h)</sd> <cd>To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to separate.</cd> <sd>(i)</sd> <cd>To hurry away; to get through.</cd> Chaucer. -- <col>To come off by</col>, <cd>to suffer</cd>. [Obs.] "To come off by the worst." Calamy. -- <col>To come off from</col>, <cd>to leave.</cd> "To come off from these grave disquisitions." Felton. -- <col>To come on</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To advance; to make progress; to thrive.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To move forward; to approach; to supervene.</cd> -- <col>To come out</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To pass out or depart, as from a country, room, company, etc.</cd> "They shall come out with great substance." Gen. xv. 14. <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To become public; to appear; to be published.</cd> "It is indeed come out at last." Bp. Stillingfleet. <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To end; to result; to turn out; <as>as, how will this affair <ex>come out</ex>? he has <ex>come out</ex> well at last</as>.</cd> <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>To be introduced into society; <as>as, she <ex>came out</ex> two seasons ago</as>.</cd> <sd>(e)</sd> <cd>To appear; to show itself; <as>as, the sun <ex>came out</ex></as>.</cd> <sd>(f)</sd> <cd>To take sides; to take a stand; as, he came out against the tariff.</cd><-- <sd>(g)</sd> <cd>To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.</cd> --> -- <col>To come out with</col>, <cd>to give publicity to; to disclose.</cd> -- <col>To come over</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To pass from one side or place to another.</cd> "Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to them." Addison. <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To rise and pass over, in distillation.</cd> -- <col>To come over to</col>, <cd>to join.</cd> -- <col>To come round</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To recur in regular course.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To recover.</cd> [Colloq.] <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To change, as the wind.</cd> <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>To relent.</cd> J. H. Newman. <sd>(e)</sd> <cd>To circumvent; to wheedle.</cd> [Colloq.] -- <col>To come short</col>, <cd>to be deficient; to fail of attaining.</cd> "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Rom. iii. 23. -- <col>To come to</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To consent or yield.</cd> Swift. <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> (with the accent on to) <cd>To luff; to brin the ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.</cd> <sd>(c)</sd> (with the accent on to) <cd>To recover, as from a swoon.</cd> <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>To arrive at; to reach.</cd> <sd>(e)</sd> <cd>To amount to; <as>as, the taxes <ex>come to</ex> a large sum</as>.</cd> <sd>(f)</sd> <cd>To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.</cd> Shak. -- <col>To come to blows</col>. <cd>See under <er>Blow</er>.</cd> -- <col>To come to grief</col>. <cd>See under <er>Grief</er>.</cd> -- <col>To come to a head</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To suppurate, as a boil.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To mature; to culminate; as a plot.</cd> -- <col>To come to one's self</col>, <cd>to recover one's senses.</cd> -- <col>To come to pass</col>, <cd>to happen; to fall out.</cd> -- <col>To come to the scratch</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Prize Fighting)</fld> <cd>To step up to the scratch or mark made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in beginning a contest; hence: <sd>(b)</sd> To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.</cd> [Colloq.] -- <col>To come to time</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Prize Fighting)</fld> <cd>To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and "time" is called;</cd> hence: <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To keep an appointment; to meet expectations.</cd> [Colloq.] -- <col>To come together</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble.</cd> Acts i. 6. <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To live together as man and wife.</cd> Matt. i. 18. -- <col>To come true</col>, <cd>to happen as predicated or expected.</cd> -- <col>To come under</col>, <cd>to belong to, as an individual to a class.</cd> -- <col>To come up</col> <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>to ascend; to rise.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To be brought up; to arise, as a question.</cd> <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a plant.</cd> <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>To come into use, as a fashion.</cd> -- <col>To come up the capstan</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to turn it the contrary way, so as to slacken the rope about it.</cd> -- <col>To come up the tackle fall</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to slacken the tackle gently.</cd> Totten. -- <col>To come up to</col>, <cd>to rise to; to equal.</cd> -- <col>To come up with</col>, <cd>to overtake or reach by pursuit.</cd> -- <col>To come upon</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To befall.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To attack or invade.</cd> <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for support; <as>as, <ex>to come upon</ex> the town</as>.</cd> <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>To light or chance upon; to find; <as>as, to <ex>come upon</ex> hid treasure</as>.</cd></cs>

<hw>Come</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To carry through; to succeed in; <as>as, you can't <ex>come</ex> any tricks here</as>.</def> [Slang]

<cs><col>To come it</col>, <cd>to succeed in a trick of any sort. [Slang]</cd></cs>

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