Come /(?)/

Come

v. i.

imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n. Coming

  1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker, or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
    Look, who comes yonder?
    I did not come to curse thee.
  2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
    When we came to Rome.
    — Acts xxviii. 16.
    Lately come from Italy.
    — Acts xviii. 2.
  3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a distance.
    The hour is coming, and now is.
    — John. v. 25.
    So quick bright things come to confusion.
  4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the act of another.
    From whence come wars?
    — James iv. 1.
    Both riches and honor come of thee !
    — 1 Chron. xxix. 12.
  5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
    Then butter does refuse to come.
    — Hudibras.
  6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with a predicate; as, to come untied.
    How come you thus estranged?
    How come her eyes so bright?
    Think not that I am come to destroy.
    — Matt. v. 17.
    We are come off like Romans.
    The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year.
    They were cried In meeting, come next Sunday.
    On better thoughts, and my urged reasons, They are come about, and won to the true side.

Come

v. t.
  1. To carry through; to succeed in; as, you can't come any tricks here. [Slang]

Phrases & Compounds
To come it
to succeed in a trick of any sort.

Come

n.
  1. Coming. [Obs.]