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English Dictionary: Came	by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Came \Came\, n. [Cf. Scot. came, caim, comb, and OE. camet silver.] A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Came \Came\, imp. of {Come}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [fb]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. [bd]Thy kingdom come.[b8] --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. [bd]This is the heir; come, let us kill him.[b8] --Matt. xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste, or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. [bd]Come, come, no time for lamentation now.[b8] --Milton. {To come}, yet to arrive, future. [bd]In times to come.[b8] --Dryden. [bd]There's pippins and cheese to come.[b8] --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. [bd]The wind is come about.[b8] --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. [bd]Am come abroad to see the world.[b8] --Shak. (b) To become public or known. [Obs.] [bd]Neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad.[b8] --Mark. iv. 22. {To come across}, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or suddenly. [bd]We come across more than one incidental mention of those wars.[b8] --E. A. Freeman. [bd]Wagner's was certainly one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever came across.[b8] --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. [bd]His spirit came again and he revived.[b8] --Judges. xv. 19. - {To come and go}. (a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. [bd]The color of the king doth come and go.[b8] --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. [bd]Examine how you came by all your state.[b8] --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. [bd]The thief cometh in.[b8] --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. [bd]We need not fear his coming in[b8] --Massinger. (e) To be brought into use. [bd]Silken garments did not come in till late.[b8] --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. [bd]The rest came in for subsidies.[b8] --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. [bd]Nothing ancient or modern seems to come near it.[b8] --Sir W. Temple. {To come of}. (a) To descend or spring from. [bd]Of Priam's royal race my mother came.[b8] --Dryden. (b) To result or follow from. [bd]This comes of judging by the eye.[b8] --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.] [bd]To come off by the worst.[b8] --Calamy. {To come off from}, to leave. [bd]To come off from these grave disquisitions.[b8] --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. [bd]They shall come out with great substance.[b8] --Gen. xv. 14. (b) To become public; to appear; to be published. [bd]It is indeed come out at last.[b8] --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.