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) |