Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. {Came}; p. p. {Come}; p. pr & vb. n.
   {Coming}.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS. kuman,
   D. komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
   komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr.
   gam. [root]23. Cf. {Base}, n., {Convene}, {Adventure}.]
   1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker,
      or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.

            Look, who comes yonder?               --Shak.

            I did not come to curse thee.         --Tennyson.

   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. ``Thy kingdom come.'' --Matt. vi. 10.

            The hour is coming, and now is.       --John. v. 25.

            So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak.

   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?          --Shak.

            How come her eyes so bright?          --Shak.

   Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of
         have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to
         be gives a clearer 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.

               Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v.
                                                  17.

               We are come off like Romans.       --Shak.

               The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the
               year.                              --Bryant.

   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 auxiliary; as, it will be two
         years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall
         come.

               They were cried In meeting, come next Sunday.
                                                  --Lowell.
         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.

   {To come}, yet to arrive, future. ``In times to come.''
      --Dryden. ``There's pippins and cheese to come.'' --Shak.

   {To come about}.
      (a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as,
          how did these things come about?
      (b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about.
          ``The wind is come about.'' --Shak.

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

   {To come abroad}.
      (a) To move or be away from one's home or country. ``Am
          come abroad to see the world.'' --Shak.
      (b) To become public or known. [Obs.] ``Neither was
          anything kept secret, but that it should come
          abroad.'' --Mark. iv. 22.

   {To come across}, 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. Haweis.

   {To come after}.
      (a) To follow.
      (b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a
          book.

   {To come again}, to return. ``His spirit came again and he
      revived.'' --Judges. xv. 19. - 

   {To come and go}.
      (a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate.
          ``The color of the king doth come and go.'' --Shak.
      (b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

   {To come at}.
      (a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to
          come at a true knowledge of ourselves.
      (b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with
          fury.

   {To come away}, to part or depart.

   {To come between}, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause
      estrangement.

   {To come by}.
      (a) To obtain, gain, acquire. ``Examine how you came by
          all your state.'' --Dryden.
      (b) To pass near or by way of.

   {To come down}.
      (a) To descend.
      (b) To be humbled.

   {To come down upon}, to call to account, to reprimand.
      [Colloq.] --Dickens.

   {To come home}.
      (a) To return to one's house or family.
      (b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the
          feelings, interest, or reason.
      (c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an
          anchor.

   {To come in}.
      (a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. ``The thief cometh
          in.'' --Hos. vii. 1.
      (b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in.
      (c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln
          came in.
      (d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. ``We need not fear
          his coming in'' --Massinger.
      (e) To be brought into use. ``Silken garments did not come
          in till late.'' --Arbuthnot.
      (f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of.
      (g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment.
      (h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
          well.
      (i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen.
          xxxviii. 16.
      (j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come
          in next May. [U. S.]

   {To come in for}, to claim or receive. ``The rest came in for
      subsidies.'' --Swift.

   {To come into}, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
      to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

   {To come it over}, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of.
      [Colloq.]

   {To come} {near or nigh}, to approach in place or quality; to
      be equal to. ``Nothing ancient or modern seems to come
      near it.'' --Sir W. Temple.

   {To come of}.
      (a) To descend or spring from. ``Of Priam's royal race my
          mother came.'' --Dryden.
      (b) To result or follow from. ``This comes of judging by
          the eye.'' --L'Estrange.

   {To come off}.
      (a) To depart or pass off from.
      (b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
      (c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off
          well.
      (d) 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. [Colloq.]
      (e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.]
      (f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
          off?
      (g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came
          off very fine.
      (h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to
          separate.
      (i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer.

   {To come off by}, to suffer. [Obs.] ``To come off by the
      worst.'' --Calamy.

   {To come off from}, to leave. ``To come off from these grave
      disquisitions.'' --Felton.

   {To come on}.
      (a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive.
      (b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

   {To come out}.
      (a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room,
          company, etc. ``They shall come out with great
          substance.'' --Gen. xv. 14.
      (b) To become public; to appear; to be published. ``It is
          indeed come out at last.'' --Bp. Stillingfleet.
      (c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this
          affair come out? he has come out well at last.
      (d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two
          seasons ago.
      (e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
      (f) To take sides; to take a stand; as, he came out
          against the tariff.