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To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

To come over.
   (a) To pass from one side or place to another. ``Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to them.'' --Addison.
   (b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

To come over to, to join.

To come round.
   (a) To recur in regular course.
   (b) To recover. [Colloq.]


   (c) To change, as the wind.
   (d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
   (e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. ``All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.'' --Rom. iii. 23.

To come to.
   (a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
   (b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
   (c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
   (d) To arrive at; to reach.
   (e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
   (f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance. --Shak.

To come to blows. See under Blow.

To come to grief. See under Grief.

To come to a head.
   (a) To suppurate, as a boil.
   (b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

To come to the scratch.
   (a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in beginning a contest; hence:
   (b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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