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   tachina fly
         n 1: bristly fly whose larvae live parasitically in caterpillars
               and other insects; important in control of noxious insects

English Dictionary: The Gambia	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
take in vain v use a name, such as God, without proper respect
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take-home pay n what is left of your pay after deductions for taxes and dues and insurance etc
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taken for granted adj evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we hold these truths to be self-evident" Synonym(s): axiomatic, self-evident, taken for granted(p)
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taken up adj having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something; "became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle"; "was absolutely obsessed with the girl"; "got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children"; "he was taken up in worry for the old woman" Synonym(s): haunted, obsessed, preoccupied, taken up(p)
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technobabble n technical jargon from computing and other high-tech subjects
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technophile n a person who is enthusiastic about new technology [ant: technophobe]
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technophilia n enthusiasm for new technology
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technophilic adj of or relating to or showing technophilia
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technophobe n a person who dislikes or avoids new technology [ant: technophile]
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technophobia n dislike for new technology
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technophobic adj of or relating to or showing technophobia
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The Gambia n a narrow republic surrounded by Senegal in West Africa Synonym(s): Gambia, The Gambia, Republic of The Gambia
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thysanopter n an insect of the order Thysanoptera [syn: thysanopter, thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect]
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Thysanoptera n thrips Synonym(s): Thysanoptera, order Thysanoptera
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thysanopteron n an insect of the order Thysanoptera [syn: thysanopter, thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect]
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thysanopterous insect n an insect of the order Thysanoptera [syn: thysanopter, thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect]
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Tiziano Vecellio n old master of the Venetian school (1490-1576) [syn: Titian, Tiziano Vecellio]
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token payment n a small payment made in acknowledgement of an obligation
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toxaemia of pregnancy n an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine Synonym(s): toxemia of pregnancy, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxaemia
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toxemia of pregnancy n an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine Synonym(s): toxemia of pregnancy, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxaemia
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two-chambered adj consisting of two chambers; "the bicameral heart of a fish" Synonym(s): bicameral, two-chambered
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Heath \Heath\, n. [OE. heth waste land, the plant heath, AS. h[?][?]; akin to D. & G. heide, Icel. hei[?]r waste land, Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. haipi field, L. bucetum a cow pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. ksh[?]tra field. [root]20.] 1. (Bot.) (a) A low shrub ({Erica, [or] Calluna, vulgaris}), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called {heather}, and {ling}. (b) Also, any species of the genus {Erica}, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of {Heather}. 2. A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage. Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. --Milton {Heath cock} (Zo[94]l.), the blackcock. See {Heath grouse} (below). {Heath grass} (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus {Triodia} ({T. decumbens}), growing on dry heaths. {Heath grouse}, [or] {Heath game} (Zo[94]l.), a European grouse ({Tetrao tetrix}), which inhabits heats; -- called also {black game}, {black grouse}, {heath poult}, {heath fowl}, {moor fowl}. The male is called, {heath cock}, and {blackcock}; the female, {heath hen}, and {gray hen}. {Heath hen}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Heath grouse} (above). {Heath pea} (bot.), a species of bitter vetch ({Lathyris macrorhizus}), the tubers of which are eaten, and in Scotland are used to flavor whisky. {Heath throstle} (Zo[94]l.), a European thrush which frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Techniphone \Tech"ni*phone\, n. [Gr. [?] art + -phone.] (Music) A dumb gymnastic apparatus for training the hands of pianists and organists, as to a legato touch.
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d8Tucum \[d8]Tu"cum\, n. [So called by the Indians of Brazil.] A fine, strong fiber obtained from the young leaves of a Brazilian palm ({Astrocaryum vulgare}), used for cordage, bowstrings, etc.; also, the plant yielding this fiber. Called also {tecum}, and {tecum fiber}.
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Moneyer \Mon"ey*er\, n. [From {Money}; cf. OF. monoier, F. monnoayeur, L. monetarius a master of the mint. Cf. {Monetary}.] 1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. [Obs. or R.] 2. An authorized coiner of money. --Sir M. Hale. {The Company of Moneyers}, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
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Thysanopteran \Thy`sanop"teran\, n. (Zo[94]l.) One of the Thysanoptera.
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Thysanopterous \Thy`sanop"terous\, a. Of or pertaining to the Thysanoptera.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
About \A*bout"\, adv. 1. On all sides; around. 'Tis time to look about. --Shak. 2. In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across. 3. Here and there; around; in one place and another. Wandering about from house to house. --1 Tim. v. 13. 4. Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; -- also of quantity, number, time. [bd]There fell . . . about three thousand men.[b8] --Exod. xxii. 28. 5. To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one's self about. {To bring about}, to cause to take place; to accomplish. {To come about}, to occur; to take place. See under {Come}. {To go about}, {To set about}, to undertake; to arrange; to prepare. [bd]Shall we set about some revels?[b8] --Shak. {Round about}, in every direction around.
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.
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.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
By \By\ (b[imac]), prep. [OE. bi, AS. b[c6], big, near to, by, of, from, after, according to; akin to OS. & OFries. bi, be, D. bij, OHG. b[c6], G. bei, Goth. bi, and perh. Gr. 'amfi`. E. prefix be- is orig. the same word. [root]203. See pref. {Be-}.] 1. In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me. [1913 Webster] By foundation or by shady rivulet He sought them both. --Milton. 2. On; along; in traversing. Compare 5. Long labors both by sea and land he bore. --Dryden. By land, by water, they renew the charge. --Pope. 3. Near to, while passing; hence, from one to the other side of; past; as, to go by a church. 4. Used in specifying adjacent dimensions; as, a cabin twenty feet by forty. 5. Against. [Obs.] --Tyndale [1. Cor. iv. 4]. 6. With, as means, way, process, etc.; through means of; with aid of; through; through the act or agency of; as, a city is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take by force. Note: To the meaning of by, as denoting means or agency, belong, more or less closely, most of the following uses of the word: (a) It points out the author and producer; as, [bd]Waverley[b8], a novel by Sir W.Scott; a statue by Canova; a sonata by Beethoven. (b) In an oath or adjuration, it indicates the being or thing appealed to as sanction; as, I affirm to you by all that is sacred; he swears by his faith as a Christian; no, by Heaven. (c) According to; by direction, authority, or example of; after; -- in such phrases as, it appears by his account; ten o'clock by my watch; to live by rule; a model to build by. (d) At the rate of; according to the ratio or proportion of; in the measure or quantity of; as, to sell cloth by the yard, milk by the quart, eggs by the dozen, meat by the pound; to board by the year. (e) In comparison, it denotes the measure of excess or deficiency; when anything is increased or diminished, it indicates the measure of increase or diminution; as, larger by a half; older by five years; to lessen by a third. (f) It expresses continuance or duration; during the course of; within the period of; as, by day, by night. (g) As soon as; not later than; near or at; -- used in expressions of time; as, by this time the sun had risen; he will be here by two o'clock. Note: In boxing the compass, by indicates a pint nearer to, or towards, the next cardinal point; as, north by east, i.e., a point towards the east from the north; northeast by east, i.e., on point nearer the east than northeast is. Note: With is used instead of by before the instrument with which anything is done; as, to beat one with a stick; the board was fastened by the carpenter with nails. But there are many words which may be regarded as means or processes, or, figuratively, as instruments; and whether with or by shall be used with them is a matter of arbitrary, and often, of unsettled usage; as, to a reduce a town by famine; to consume stubble with fire; he gained his purpose by flattery; he entertained them with a story; he distressed us with or by a recital of his sufferings. see {With}. {By all means}, most assuredly; without fail; certainly. {By and by}. (a) Close together (of place). [Obs.] [bd]Two yonge knightes liggyng [lying] by and by.[b8] --Chaucer. (b) Immediately; at once. [Obs.] [bd]When . . . persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.[b8] --Matt. xiii. 21. (c) Presently; pretty soon; before long. Note: In this phrase, by seems to be used in the sense of nearness in time, and to be repeated for the sake of emphasis, and thus to be equivalent to [bd]soon, and soon,[b8] that is instantly; hence, -- less emphatically, -- pretty soon, presently. {By one's self}, with only one's self near; alone; solitary. {By the bye}. See under {Bye}. {By the head} (Naut.), having the bows lower than the stern; -- said of a vessel when her head is lower in the water than her stern. If her stern is lower, she is by the stern. {By the lee}, the situation of a vessel, going free, when she has fallen off so much as to bring the wind round her stern, and to take her sails aback on the other side. {By the run}, to let go by the run, to let go altogether, instead of slacking off. {By the way}, by the bye; -- used to introduce an incidental or secondary remark or subject. {Day by day}, {One by one}, {Piece by piece}, etc., each day, each one, each piece, etc., by itself singly or separately; each severally. {To come by}, to get possession of; to obtain. {To do by}, to treat, to behave toward. {To set by}, to value, to esteem. {To stand by}, to aid, to support. Note: The common phrase good-by is equivalent to farewell, and would be better written good-bye, as it is a corruption of God be with you (b'w'ye).
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.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Off \Off\, adv. [OE. of, orig. the same word as R. of, prep., AS. of, adv. & prep. [fb]194. See {Of}.] In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as: 1. Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off. 2. Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like. 3. Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off. 4. Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off. 5. Denoting opposition or negation. [Obs.] The questions no way touch upon puritanism, either off or on. --Bp. Sanderson. {From off}, off from; off. [bd]A live coal . . . taken with the tongs from off the altar.[b8] --Is. vi. 6. {Off and on}. (a) Not constantly; not regularly; now and then; occasionally. (b) (Naut.) On different tacks, now toward, and now away from, the land. {To be off}. (a) To depart; to escape; as, he was off without a moment's warning. (b) To be abandoned, as an agreement or purpose; as, the bet was declared to be off. [Colloq.] {To come off}, {To cut off}, {To fall off}, {To go off}, etc. See under {Come}, {Cut}, {Fall}, {Go}, etc. {To get off}. (a) To utter; to discharge; as, to get off a joke. (b) To go away; to escape; as, to get off easily from a trial. [Colloq.] {To take off}, to mimic or personate.
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.
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.
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.
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{Flying army} (Mil.) a body of cavalry and infantry, kept in motion, to cover its own garrisons and to keep the enemy in continual alarm. --Farrow. {Flying artillery} (Mil.), artillery trained to rapid evolutions, -- the men being either mounted or trained to spring upon the guns and caissons when they change position. {Flying bridge}, {Flying camp}. See under {Bridge}, and {Camp}. {Flying buttress} (Arch.), a contrivance for taking up the thrust of a roof or vault which can not be supported by ordinary buttresses. It consists of a straight bar of masonry, usually sloping, carried on an arch, and a solid pier or buttress sufficient to receive the thrust. The word is generally applied only to the straight bar with supporting arch. {Flying colors}, flags unfurled and waving in the air; hence: {To come off with flying colors}, to be victorious; to succeed thoroughly in an undertaking. {Flying doe} (Zo[94]l.), a young female kangaroo. {Flying dragon}. (a) (Zo[94]l.) See {Dragon}, 6. (b) A meteor. See under {Dragon}. {Flying Dutchman}. (a) A fabled Dutch mariner condemned for his crimes to sail the seas till the day of judgment. (b) A spectral ship. {Flying fish}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Flying fish}, in the Vocabulary. {Flying fox} (Zo[94]l.), the colugo. {Flying frog} (Zo[94]l.), an East Indian tree frog of the genus {Rhacophorus}, having very large and broadly webbed feet, which serve as parachutes, and enable it to make very long leaps. {Flying gurnard} (Zo[94]l.), a species of gurnard of the genus {Cephalacanthus} or {Dactylopterus}, with very large pectoral fins, said to be able to fly like the flying fish, but not for so great a distance. Note: Three species are known; that of the Atlantic is {Cephalacanthus volitans}. {Flying jib} (Naut.), a sail extended outside of the standing jib, on the flying-jib boom. {Flying-jib boom} (Naut.), an extension of the jib boom. {Flying kites} (Naut.), light sails carried only in fine weather. {Flying lemur}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Colugo}. {Flying level} (Civil Engin.), a reconnoissance level over the course of a projected road, canal, etc. {Flying lizard}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Dragon}, n. 6. {Flying machine}, an apparatus for navigating the air; a form of balloon. -- {Flying mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the opossum mouse ({Acrobates pygm[91]us}), of Australia. Note: It has lateral folds of skin, like the flying squirrels. -- {Flying party} (Mil.), a body of soldiers detailed to hover about an enemy. -- {Flying phalanger} (Zo[94]l.), one of several species of small marsuupials of the genera {Petaurus} and {Belideus}, of Australia and New Guinea, having lateral folds like those of the flying squirrels. The sugar squirrel ({B. sciureus}), and the ariel ({B. ariel}), are the best known; -- called also {squirrel petaurus} and {flying squirrel}. See {Sugar squirrel}. -- {Flying pinion}, the fly of a clock. -- {Flying sap} (Mil.), the rapid construction of trenches (when the enemy's fire of case shot precludes the method of simple trenching), by means of gabions placed in juxtaposition and filled with earth. -- {Flying shot}, a shot fired at a moving object, as a bird on the wing. -- {Flying spider}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Ballooning spider}. -- {Flying squid} (Zo[94]l.), an oceanic squid ({Ommastrephes, [or] Sthenoteuthis, Bartramii}), abundant in the Gulf Stream, which is able to leap out of the water with such force that it often falls on the deck of a vessel. -- {Flying squirrel} (Zo[94]l.) See {Flying squirrel}, in the Vocabulary. -- {Flying start}, a start in a sailing race in which the signal is given while the vessels are under way. -- {Flying torch} (Mil.), a torch attached to a long staff and used for signaling at night.
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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. [bd]Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to them.[b8] --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. [bd]All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.[b8] --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.]
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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. [bd]Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to them.[b8] --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. [bd]All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.[b8] --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.]
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{To come to time}. (a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and [bd]time[b8] is called; hence: (b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations. [Colloq.] {To come together}. (a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble. --Acts i. 6. (b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18. {To come true}, to happen as predicted or expected. {To come under}, to belong to, as an individual to a class. {To come up} (a) to ascend; to rise. (b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question. (c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a plant. (d) To come into use, as a fashion. {To come up the capstan} (Naut.), to turn it the contrary way, so as to slacken the rope about it. {To come up the tackle fall} (Naut.), to slacken the tackle gently. --Totten. {To come up to}, to rise to; to equal. {To come up with}, to overtake or reach by pursuit. {To come upon}. (a) To befall. (b) To attack or invade. (c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for support; as, to come upon the town. (d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid treasure.
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{To come to time}. (a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and [bd]time[b8] is called; hence: (b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations. [Colloq.] {To come together}. (a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble. --Acts i. 6. (b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18. {To come true}, to happen as predicted or expected. {To come under}, to belong to, as an individual to a class. {To come up} (a) to ascend; to rise. (b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question. (c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a plant. (d) To come into use, as a fashion. {To come up the capstan} (Naut.), to turn it the contrary way, so as to slacken the rope about it. {To come up the tackle fall} (Naut.), to slacken the tackle gently. --Totten. {To come up to}, to rise to; to equal. {To come up with}, to overtake or reach by pursuit. {To come upon}. (a) To befall. (b) To attack or invade. (c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for support; as, to come upon the town. (d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid treasure.
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{To come to time}. (a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and [bd]time[b8] is called; hence: (b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations. [Colloq.] {To come together}. (a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble. --Acts i. 6. (b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18. {To come true}, to happen as predicted or expected. {To come under}, to belong to, as an individual to a class. {To come up} (a) to ascend; to rise. (b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question. (c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a plant. (d) To come into use, as a fashion. {To come up the capstan} (Naut.), to turn it the contrary way, so as to slacken the rope about it. {To come up the tackle fall} (Naut.), to slacken the tackle gently. --Totten. {To come up to}, to rise to; to equal. {To come up with}, to overtake or reach by pursuit. {To come upon}. (a) To befall. (b) To attack or invade. (c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for support; as, to come upon the town. (d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid treasure.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{To come to time}. (a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and [bd]time[b8] is called; hence: (b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations. [Colloq.] {To come together}. (a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble. --Acts i. 6. (b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18. {To come true}, to happen as predicted or expected. {To come under}, to belong to, as an individual to a class. {To come up} (a) to ascend; to rise. (b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question. (c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a plant. (d) To come into use, as a fashion. {To come up the capstan} (Naut.), to turn it the contrary way, so as to slacken the rope about it. {To come up the tackle fall} (Naut.), to slacken the tackle gently. --Totten. {To come up to}, to rise to; to equal. {To come up with}, to overtake or reach by pursuit. {To come upon}. (a) To befall. (b) To attack or invade. (c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for support; as, to come upon the town. (d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid treasure.
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Up \Up\, adv. [AS. up, upp, [?]p; akin to OFries. up, op, D. op, OS. [?]p, OHG. [?]f, G. auf, Icel. [?] Sw. upp, Dan. op, Goth. iup, and probably to E. over. See {Over}.] 1. Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of {down}. But up or down, By center or eccentric, hard to tell. --Milton. 2. Hence, in many derived uses, specifically: (a) From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or implied. But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop. --Num. xiv. 44. I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. --Ps. lxxxviii. 15. Up rose the sun, and up rose Emelye. --Chaucer. We have wrought ourselves up into this degree of Christian indifference. --Atterbury. (b) In a higher place or position, literally or figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an upright, or nearly upright, position; standing; mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation, prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement, insurrection, or the like; -- used with verbs of rest, situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up. And when the sun was up, they were scorched. --Matt. xiii. 6. Those that were up themselves kept others low. --Spenser. Helen was up -- was she? --Shak. Rebels there are up, And put the Englishmen unto the sword. --Shak. His name was up through all the adjoining provinces, even to Italy and Rome; many desiring to see who he was that could withstand so many years the Roman puissance. --Milton. Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms. --Dryden. Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up. --Dryden. A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up. --Addison. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. --Longfellow. (c) To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, or the like; -- usually followed by to or with; as, to be up to the chin in water; to come up with one's companions; to come up with the enemy; to live up to engagements. As a boar was whetting his teeth, up comes a fox to him. --L'Estrange. (d) To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the mouth; to sew up a rent. Note: Some phrases of this kind are now obsolete; as, to spend up (--Prov. xxi. 20); to kill up (--B. Jonson). (e) Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapons. Note: Up is used elliptically for get up, rouse up, etc., expressing a command or exhortation. [bd]Up, and let us be going.[b8] --Judg. xix. 28. Up, up, my friend! and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double. --Wordsworth. {It is all up with him}, it is all over with him; he is lost. {The time is up}, the allotted time is past. {To be up in}, to be informed about; to be versed in. [bd]Anxious that their sons should be well up in the superstitions of two thousand years ago.[b8] --H. Spencer. {To be up to}. (a) To be equal to, or prepared for; as, he is up to the business, or the emergency. [Colloq.] (b) To be engaged in; to purpose, with the idea of doing ill or mischief; as, I don't know what he's up to. [Colloq.] {To blow up}. (a) To inflate; to distend. (b) To destroy by an explosion from beneath. (c) To explode; as, the boiler blew up. (d) To reprove angrily; to scold. [Slang] {To bring up}. See under {Bring}, v. t. {To come up with}. See under {Come}, v. i. {To cut up}. See under {Cut}, v. t. & i. {To draw up}. See under {Draw}, v. t. {To grow up}, to grow to maturity. {Up anchor} (Naut.), the order to man the windlass preparatory to hauling up the anchor. {Up and down}. (a) First up, and then down; from one state or position to another. See under {Down}, adv. Fortune . . . led him up and down. --Chaucer. (b) (Naut.) Vertical; perpendicular; -- said of the cable when the anchor is under, or nearly under, the hawse hole, and the cable is taut. --Totten. {Up helm} (Naut.), the order given to move the tiller toward the upper, or windward, side of a vessel. {Up to snuff}. See under {Snuff}. [Slang] {What is up?} What is going on? [Slang]
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{To come to time}. (a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and [bd]time[b8] is called; hence: (b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations. [Colloq.] {To come together}. (a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble. --Acts i. 6. (b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18. {To come true}, to happen as predicted or expected. {To come under}, to belong to, as an individual to a class. {To come up} (a) to ascend; to rise. (b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question. (c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a plant. (d) To come into use, as a fashion. {To come up the capstan} (Naut.), to turn it the contrary way, so as to slacken the rope about it. {To come up the tackle fall} (Naut.), to slacken the tackle gently. --Totten. {To come up to}, to rise to; to equal. {To come up with}, to overtake or reach by pursuit. {To come upon}. (a) To befall. (b) To attack or invade. (c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for support; as, to come upon the town. (d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid treasure.
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Upon \Up*on"\, prep.[AS. uppan, uppon; upp up + on, an, on. See {Up}, and {On}.] On; -- used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable. [bd]Upon an hill of flowers.[b8] --Chaucer. Our host upon his stirrups stood anon. --Chaucer. Thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar. --Ex. xxix. 21. The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. --Judg. xvi. 9. As I did stand my watch upon the hill. --Shak. He made a great difference between people that did rebel upon wantonness, and them that did rebel upon want. --Bacon. This advantage we lost upon the invention of firearms. --Addison. Upon the whole, it will be necessary to avoid that perpetual repetition of the same epithets which we find in Homer. --Pope. He had abandoned the frontiers, retiring upon Glasgow. --Sir. W. Scott. Philip swore upon the Evangelists to abstain from aggression in my absence. --Landor. Note: Upon conveys a more distinct notion that on carries with it of something that literally or metaphorically bears or supports. It is less employed than it used to be, on having for the most part taken its place. Some expressions formed with it belong only to old style; as, upon pity they were taken away; that is, in consequence of pity: upon the rate of thirty thousand; that is, amounting to the rate: to die upon the hand; that is, by means of the hand: he had a garment upon; that is, upon himself: the time is coming fast upon; that is, upon the present time. By the omission of its object, upon acquires an adverbial sense, as in the last two examples. {To assure upon} (Law), to promise; to undertake. {To come upon}. See under {Come}. {To take upon}, to assume.
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{To come to time}. (a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and [bd]time[b8] is called; hence: (b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations. [Colloq.] {To come together}. (a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble. --Acts i. 6. (b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18. {To come true}, to happen as predicted or expected. {To come under}, to belong to, as an individual to a class. {To come up} (a) to ascend; to rise. (b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question. (c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a plant. (d) To come into use, as a fashion. {To come up the capstan} (Naut.), to turn it the contrary way, so as to slacken the rope about it. {To come up the tackle fall} (Naut.), to slacken the tackle gently. --Totten. {To come up to}, to rise to; to equal. {To come up with}, to overtake or reach by pursuit. {To come upon}. (a) To befall. (b) To attack or invade. (c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for support; as, to come upon the town. (d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid treasure.
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To compound a felony \To compound a felony\ See under {Compound}, v. t.
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Compound \Compound"\ (k[ocr]mpound"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Compounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Compounding}.] [OE. componen, compounen, L. componere, compositum; com-+ ponere to put set. The d is excrescent. See {Position}, and cf. {Compon[82]}.] 1. To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine. Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort. --Sir W. Scott. 2. To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite. We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture. --Addison. 3. To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else. Only compound me with forgotten dust. --Shak. 4. To compose; to constitute. [Obs.] His pomp and all what state compounds. --Shak. 5. To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt. I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife. --Shak. {To compound a felony}, to accept of a consideration for forbearing to prosecute, such compounding being an indictable offense. See {Theftbote}.
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Gain \Gain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gained} (g[amac]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Gaining}.] [From gain, n. but. prob. influenced by F. gagner to earn, gain, OF. gaaignier to cultivate, OHG. weidin[omac]n, weidinen to pasture, hunt, fr. weida pasturage, G. weide, akin to Icel. vei[edh]r hunting, AS. w[amac][edh]u, cf. L. venari to hunt, E. venison. See {Gain}, n., profit.] 1. To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living. What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? --Matt. xvi. 26. To gain dominion, or to keep it gained. --Milton. For fame with toil we gain, but lose with ease. --Pope. 2. To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize. 3. To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate. If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. --Matt. xviii. 15. To gratify the queen, and gained the court. --Dryden. 4. To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor. Forded Usk and gained the wood. --Tennyson. 5. To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage. [Obs. or Ironical] Ye should . . . not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. --Acts xxvii. 21. {Gained day}, the calendar day gained in sailing eastward around the earth. {To gain ground}, to make progress; to advance in any undertaking; to prevail; to acquire strength or extent. {To gain over}, to draw to one's party or interest; to win over. {To gain the wind} (Naut.), to reach the windward side of another ship. Syn: To obtain; acquire; get; procure; win; earn; attain; achieve. Usage: See {Obtain}. -- {To Gain}, {Win}. Gain implies only that we get something by exertion; win, that we do it in competition with others. A person gains knowledge, or gains a prize, simply by striving for it; he wins a victory, or wins a prize, by taking it in a struggle with others.
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7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over or through. By going over all these particulars, you may receive some tolerable satisfaction about this great subject. --South. 8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate. The fruit she goes with, I pray for heartily, that it may find Good time, and live. --Shak. 9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to depart; -- in opposition to stay and come. I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away. --Ex. viii. 28. 10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die. By Saint George, he's gone! That spear wound hath our master sped. --Sir W. Scott. 11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New York. His amorous expressions go no further than virtue may allow. --Dryden. 12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law. Note: Go is used, in combination with many prepositions and adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb, lies the principal force of the expression; as, to go against to go into, to go out, to go aside, to go astray, etc. {Go to}, come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation, serious or ironical. {To go a-begging}, not to be in demand; to be undesired. {To go about}. (a) To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to undertake. [bd]They went about to slay him.[b8] --Acts ix. 29. They never go about . . . to hide or palliate their vices. --Swift. (b) (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear. {To go abraod}. (a) To go to a foreign country. (b) To go out of doors. (c) To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be current. Then went this saying abroad among the brethren. --John xxi. 23. {To go against}. (a) To march against; to attack. (b) To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to. {To go ahead}. (a) To go in advance. (b) To go on; to make progress; to proceed. {To go and come}. See {To come and go}, under {Come}. {To go aside}. (a) To withdraw; to retire. He . . . went aside privately into a desert place. --Luke. ix. 10. (b) To go from what is right; to err. --Num. v. 29. {To go back on}. (a) To retrace (one's path or footsteps). (b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U. S.] {To go below} (Naut), to go below deck. {To go between}, to interpose or mediate between; to be a secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander. {To go beyond}. See under {Beyond}. {To go by}, to pass away unnoticed; to omit. {To go by the board} (Naut.), to fall or be carried overboard; as, the mast went by the board. {To go down}. (a) To descend. (b) To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down. (c) To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc. (d) To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively. [Colloq.] Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down whole with him for truth. --L' Estrange. {To go far}. (a) To go to a distance. (b) To have much weight or influence. {To go for}. (a) To go in quest of. (b) To represent; to pass for. (c) To favor; to advocate. (d) To attack; to assault. [Low] (e) To sell for; to be parted with for (a price). {To go for nothing}, to be parted with for no compensation or result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count for nothing. {To go forth}. (a) To depart from a place. (b) To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate. The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. --Micah iv. 2. {To go hard with}, to trouble, pain, or endanger. {To go in}, to engage in; to take part. [Colloq.] {To go in and out}, to do the business of life; to live; to have free access. --John x. 9. {To go in for}. [Colloq.] (a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a measure, etc.). (b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor, preferment, etc.) (c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.). (d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc. He was as ready to go in for statistics as for anything else. --Dickens. {To go in to} [or] {unto}. (a) To enter the presence of. --Esther iv. 16. (b) To have sexual intercourse with. [Script.] {To go into}. (a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question, subject, etc.). (b) To participate in (a war, a business, etc.). {To go large}. (Naut) See under {Large}. {To go off}. (a) To go away; to depart. The leaders . . . will not go off until they hear you. --Shak. (b) To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off. (c) To die. --Shak. (d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of a gun, a mine, etc. (e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of. (f) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished. The wedding went off much as such affairs do. --Mrs. Caskell. {To go on}. (a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to go on reading. (b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will not go on. {To go all fours}, to correspond exactly, point for point. It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours. --Macaulay. {To go out}. (a) To issue forth from a place. (b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition. There are other men fitter to go out than I. --Shak. What went ye out for to see ? --Matt. xi. 7, 8, 9. (c) To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as news, fame etc. (d) To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as, the light has gone out. Life itself goes out at thy displeasure. --Addison. {To go over}. (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides. I must not go over Jordan. --Deut. iv. 22. Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan. --Deut. iii. 25. Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites. --Jer. xli. 10. (b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go over one's accounts. If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that . . . they enjoin the same thing. --Tillotson. (c) To transcend; to surpass. (d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the session. (e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into dextrose and levulose. {To go through}. (a) To accomplish; as, to go through a work. (b) To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a surgical operation or a tedious illness. (c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune. (d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang] (e) To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.] {To go through with}, to perform, as a calculation, to the end; to complete. {To go to ground}. (a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox. (b) To fall in battle. {To go to naught} (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or unavailling. {To go under}. (a) To set; -- said of the sun. (b) To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.). (c) To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish; to succumb. {To go up}, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail. [Slang] {To go upon}, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis. {To go with}. (a) To accompany. (b) To coincide or agree with. (c) To suit; to harmonize with. {To go} ( {well}, {ill}, [or] {hard}) {with}, to affect (one) in such manner. {To go without}, to be, or to remain, destitute of. {To go wrong}. (a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or stray. (b) To depart from virtue. (c) To happen unfortunately. (d) To miss success. {To let go}, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to release.
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Join \Join\ (join), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Joined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Joining}.] [OE. joinen, joignen, F. joindre, fr. L. jungere to yoke, bind together, join; akin to jugum yoke. See {Yoke}, and cf. {Conjugal}, {Junction}, {Junta}.] 1. To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append. Woe unto them that join house to house. --Is. v. 8. Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn Like twenty torches joined. --Shak. Thy tuneful voice with numbers join. --Dryden. 2. To associate one's self to; to be or become connected with; to league one's self with; to unite with; as, to join a party; to join the church. We jointly now to join no other head. --Dryden. 3. To unite in marriage. He that joineth his virgin in matrimony. --Wyclif. What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. --Matt. xix. 6. 4. To enjoin upon; to command. [Obs. & R.] They join them penance, as they call it. --Tyndale. 5. To accept, or engage in, as a contest; as, to join encounter, battle, issue. --Milton. {To join battle}, {To join issue}. See under {Battle}, {Issue}. Syn: To add; annex; unite; connect; combine; consociate; couple; link; append. See {Add}.
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Battle \Bat"tle\, n. [OE. bataille, bataile, F. bataille battle, OF., battle, battalion, fr. L. battalia, battualia, the fighting and fencing exercises of soldiers and gladiators, fr. batuere to strike, beat. Cf. {Battalia}, 1st {Battel}, and see {Batter}, v. t. ] 1. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat. 2. A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life. The whole intellectual battle that had at its center the best poem of the best poet of that day. --H. Morley. 3. A division of an army; a battalion. [Obs.] The king divided his army into three battles. --Bacon. The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the battle, and on it alone depended the fate of every action. --Robertson. 4. The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia. [Obs.] --Hayward. Note: Battle is used adjectively or as the first part of a self-explaining compound; as, battle brand, a [bd]brand[b8] or sword used in battle; battle cry; battlefield; battle ground; battlearray; battle song. {Battle piece}, a painting, or a musical composition, representing a battle. {Battle royal}. (a) A fight between several gamecocks, where the one that stands longest is the victor. --Grose. (b) A contest with fists or cudgels in which more than two are engaged; a m[88]l[82]e. --Thackeray. {Drawn battle}, one in which neither party gains the victory. {To give battle}, to attack an enemy. {To join battle}, to meet the attack; to engage in battle. {Pitched battle}, one in which the armies are previously drawn up in form, with a regular disposition of the forces. {Wager of battle}. See under {Wager}, n. Syn: Conflict; encounter; contest; action. Usage: {Battle}, {Combat}, {Fight}, {Engagement}. These words agree in denoting a close encounter between contending parties. Fight is a word of less dignity than the others. Except in poetry, it is more naturally applied to the encounter of a few individuals, and more commonly an accidental one; as, a street fight. A combat is a close encounter, whether between few or many, and is usually premeditated. A battle is commonly more general and prolonged. An engagement supposes large numbers on each side, engaged or intermingled in the conflict.
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Jump \Jump\, v. t. 1. To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream. 2. To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch. 3. To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard. [Obs.] To jump a body with a dangerous physic. -- Shak. 4. (Smithwork) (a) To join by a butt weld. (b) To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset. 5. (Quarrying) To bore with a jumper. {To jump a claim}, to enter upon and take possession of land to which another has acquired a claim by prior entry and occupation. [Western U. S. & Australia] See {Claim}, n., 3. {To jump one's bail}, to abscond while at liberty under bail bonds. [Slang, U. S.]
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Jump \Jump\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jumped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Jumping}.] [Akin to OD. gumpen, dial. G. gumpen, jumpen.] 1. To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap. Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square. -- Shak. 2. To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt. [bd]The jumping chariots.[b8] --Nahum iii. 2. A flock of geese jump down together. -- Dryden. 3. To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with. [bd]It jumps with my humor.[b8] --Shak. {To jump at}, to spring to; hence, fig., to accept suddenly or eagerly; as, a fish jumps at a bait; to jump at a chance.
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Jump \Jump\, v. t. 1. To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream. 2. To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch. 3. To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard. [Obs.] To jump a body with a dangerous physic. -- Shak. 4. (Smithwork) (a) To join by a butt weld. (b) To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset. 5. (Quarrying) To bore with a jumper. {To jump a claim}, to enter upon and take possession of land to which another has acquired a claim by prior entry and occupation. [Western U. S. & Australia] See {Claim}, n., 3. {To jump one's bail}, to abscond while at liberty under bail bonds. [Slang, U. S.]
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Know \Know\, v. i. 1. To have knowledge; to have a clear and certain perception; to possess wisdom, instruction, or information; -- often with of. Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. --Is. i. 3. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. --John vii. 17. The peasant folklore of Europe still knows of willows that bleed and weep and speak when hewn. --Tylor. 2. To be assured; to feel confident. {To know of}, to ask, to inquire. [Obs.] [bd] Know of your youth, examine well your blood.[b8] --Shak.
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Abraham-man \A"bra*ham-man`\[or] Abram-man \A"bram-man`\, n. [Possibly in allusion to the parable of the beggar Lazarus in Luke xvi. --Murray (New Eng. Dict. ).] One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. --Nares. {To sham Abraham}, to feign sickness. --Goldsmith.
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Sham \Sham\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shammed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shamming}.] 1. To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses. Fooled and shammed into a conviction. --L'Estrange. 2. To obtrude by fraud or imposition. [R.] We must have a care that we do not . . . sham fallacies upon the world for current reason. --L'Estrange. 3. To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign. {To sham Abram} [or] {Abraham}, to feign sickness; to malinger. Hence a malingerer is called, in sailors' cant, Sham Abram, or Sham Abraham.
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Flint \Flint\, n. [AS. flint, akin to Sw. flinta, Dan. flint; cf. OHG. flins flint, G. flinte gun (cf. E. flintlock), perh. akin to Gr. [?] brick. Cf. {Plinth}.] 1. (Min.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel. 2. A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks. 3. Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint. [bd]A heart of flint.[b8] --Spenser. {Flint age}. (Geol.) Same as {Stone age}, under {Stone}. {Flint brick}, a fire made principially of powdered silex. {Flint glass}. See in the Vocabulary. {Flint implements} (Arch[91]ol.), tools, etc., employed by men before the use of metals, such as axes, arrows, spears, knives, wedges, etc., which were commonly made of flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard stones. {Flint mill}. (a) (Pottery) A mill in which flints are ground. (b) (Mining) An obsolete appliance for lighting the miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light, but did not inflame the fire damp. --Knight. {Flint stone}, a hard, siliceous stone; a flint. {Flint wall}, a kind of wall, common in England, on the face of which are exposed the black surfaces of broken flints set in the mortar, with quions of masonry. {Liquor of flints}, a solution of silica, or flints, in potash. {To skin a flint}, to be capable of, or guilty of, any expedient or any meanness for making money. [Colloq.]
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Snap \Snap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snapped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snapping}.] [LG. or D. snappen to snap up, to snatch; akin to G. schnappen, MHG. snaben, Dan. snappe, and to D. snavel beak, bill. Cf. {Neb}, {Snaffle}, n.] 1. To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle. Breaks the doors open, snaps the locks. --Prior. 2. To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound. 3. To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth. He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has been snapped by it at last. --South. 4. To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up. --Granville. 5. To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip. MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly. --Sir W. Scott. 6. To project with a snap. {To snap back} (Football), to roll the ball back with the foot; -- done only by the center rush, who thus delivers the ball to the quarter back on his own side when both sides are ranged in line.
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{To snap off}. (a) To break suddenly. (b) To bite off suddenly.
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Snub \Snub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snubbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snubbing}.] [Cf. Icel. ssnubba to snub, chide, Sw. snubba, Icel. snubb[omac]ttr snubbed, nipped, and E. snib.] 1. To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop. 2. To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check. --J. Foster. 3. To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly. {To snub a cable} [or] {rope} (Naut.), to check it suddenly in running out. --Totten.
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Snuff \Snuff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snuffed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snuffing}.] [OE. snuffen. See {Snuff} of a candle {Snuff} to sniff.] To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of. {To snuff out}, to extinguish by snuffing.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Takoma Park, MD (city, FIPS 76650) Location: 38.98210 N, 77.00279 W Population (1990): 16700 (7133 housing units) Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 20912
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
Technobabble John Barry MIT Press 1991 ISBN 0-262-02333-4 Barry's book takes a critical and humorous look at the `technobabble' of acronyms, neologisms, hyperbole, and metaphor spawned by the computer industry. Though he discusses some of the same mechanisms of jargon formation that occur in hackish, most of what he chronicles is actually suit-speak -- the obfuscatory language of press releases, marketroids, and Silicon Valley CEOs rather than the playful jargon of hackers (most of whom wouldn't be caught dead uttering the kind of pompous, passive-voiced word salad he deplores).
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
The Computer Contradictionary Stan Kelly-Bootle MIT Press, 1995 ISBN 0-262-61112-0 This pastiche of Ambrose Bierce's famous work is similar in format to the Jargon File (and quotes several entries from TNHD-2) but somewhat different in tone and intent. It is more satirical and less anthropological, and is largely a product of the author's literate and quirky imagination. For example, it defines `computer science' as "a study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter" and `implementation' as "The fruitless struggle by the talented and underpaid to fulfill promises made by the rich and ignorant"; `flowchart' becomes "to obfuscate a problem with esoteric cartoons". Revised and expanded from "The Devil's DP Dictionary", McGraw-Hill 1981, ISBN 0-07-034022-6; that work had some stylistic influence on TNHD-1.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Texinfo A {GNU} documentation system that uses a single source file to produce both on-line information and printed output. You can read the on-line information, known as an "{Info} file", with an Info documentation-reading program. By convention, Texinfo source file names end with a ".texi" or ".texinfo" extension. You can write and format Texinfo files into Info files within {GNU Emacs}, and read them using the Emacs Info reader. If you do not have Emacs, you can format Texinfo files into Info files using "{makeinfo}" and read them using "info". {TeX} is used to typeset Texinfo files for printing. Texinfo is available from your nearest {GNU archive site}. Current version: 3.1, as of 1993-03-23. (1994-10-05)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
token bus (IEEE 802.4) A networking protocol which mediates access to a {bus} topology network as though it were a {token ring}. This eliminates the {collisions} found in {carrier sense collision detect} protocols. {Nodes} can be configured to pass the token in any order, not necessarily related to their physical ordering on the bus. The token is sent from one node to its successor in the logical ring by broadcast on the bus and is ignored by the other nodes. (1996-12-13)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
twos complement A system used in some computers to represent negative numbers in {binary}. Each {bit} of the number is inverted (zeros are replaced with ones and vice versa), as for {ones complement}, but then one (000...0001) is added (ignoring overflow). This avoids the two representations for zero found in ones complement by using all ones to represent -1. ... 000...00011 = +3 000...00010 = +2 000...00001 = +1 000...00000 = 0 111...11111 = -1 111...11110 = -2 111...11101 = -3 ... This representation simplifies the logic required for addition and subtraction, at the expense of a little extra complexity for negation. (1994-10-31)
From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]:
The Gambia The Gambia:Geography Location: Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and Senegal Map references: Africa Area: total area: 11,300 sq km land area: 10,000 sq km comparative area: slightly more than twice the size of Delaware Land boundaries: total 740 km, Senegal 740 km Coastline: 80 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 18 nm continental shelf: not specified exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: short section of boundary with Senegal is indefinite Climate: tropical; hot, rainy season (June to November); cooler, dry season (November to May) Terrain: flood plain of the Gambia River flanked by some low hills Natural resources: fish Land use: arable land: 16% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 9% forest and woodland: 20% other: 55% Irrigated land: 120 sq km (1989 est.) Environment: current issues: deforestation; desertification; water-borne diseases prevalent natural hazards: rainfall has dropped by 30% in the last thirty years international agreements: party to - Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution; signed, but not ratified - Desertification Note: almost an enclave of Senegal; smallest country on the continent of Africa The Gambia:People Population: 989,273 (July 1995 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 47% (female 231,636; male 231,053) 15-64 years: 51% (female 257,329; male 244,947) 65 years and over: 2% (female 11,850; male 12,458) (July 1995 est.) Population growth rate: 3.08% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 45.97 births/1,000 population (1995 est.) Death rate: 15.19 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.) Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.) Infant mortality rate: 120.8 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 50.55 years male: 48.25 years female: 52.92 years (1995 est.) Total fertility rate: 6.23 children born/woman (1995 est.) Nationality: noun: Gambian(s) adjective: Gambian Ethnic divisions: African 99% (Mandinka 42%, Fula 18%, Wolof 16%, Jola 10%, Serahuli 9%, other 4%), non-Gambian 1% Religions: Muslim 90%, Christian 9%, indigenous beliefs 1% Languages: English (official), Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, other indigenous vernaculars Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.) total population: 27% male: 39% female: 16% Labor force: 400,000 (1986 est.) by occupation: agriculture 75.0%, industry, commerce, and services 18.9%, government 6.1% The Gambia:Government Names: conventional long form: Republic of The Gambia conventional short form: The Gambia Digraph: GA Type: republic under multiparty democratic rule Capital: Banjul Administrative divisions: 5 divisions and 1 city; Banjul, Lower River, MacCarthy Island, North Bank, Upper River, Western Independence: 18 February 1965 (from UK; The Gambia and Senegal signed an agreement on 12 December 1981 that called for the creation of a loose confederation to be known as Senegambia, but the agreement was dissolved on 30 September 1989) National holiday: Independence Day, 18 February (1965) Constitution: 24 April 1970 Legal system: based on a composite of English common law, Koranic law, and customary law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations Suffrage: 21 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state and head of government: Chairman of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council Capt. Yahya A. J. J. JAMMEH (since the military coup of 22 July 1994); Vice Chairman of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council Capt. Edward SINGHATEH (since March 1995); election last held on 29 April 1992; results - Sir Dawda JAWARA (PPP) 58.5%, Sherif Mustapha DIBBA (NCP) 22.2%, Assan Musa CAMARA (GPP) 8.0% (prior to the 22 July 1994 coup, next election was scheduled for April 1997) cabinet: Cabinet; appointed by the president from members of the House of Representatives (present cabinet appointed by Chairman of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council) Legislative branch: unicameral House of Representatives: elections last held on 29 April 1992 (next to be held April 1997); results - PPP 58.1%; seats - (43 total, 36 elected) PPP 30, NCP 6 Judicial branch: Supreme Court Political parties and leaders: People's Progressive Party (PPP), Dawda K. JAWARA (in exile), secretary general; National Convention Party (NCP), Sheriff DIBBA (in exile); Gambian People's Party (GPP), Hassan Musa CAMARA; United Party (UP), leader NA; People's Democratic Organization of Independence and Socialism (PDOIS), leader NA; People's Democratic Party (PDP), Jabel SALLAH Member of: ACP, AfDB, C, CCC, ECA, ECOWAS, FAO, G-77, GATT, IBRD, ICAO, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT (nonsignatory user), INTERPOL, IOC, ITU, NAM, OAU, OIC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCL, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO Diplomatic representation in US: chief of mission: (vacant); Charge d'Affaires Aminatta DIBBA chancery: Suite 1000, 1155 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005 telephone: [1] (202) 785-1399, 1379, 1425 FAX: [1] (202) 785-1430 US diplomatic representation: chief of mission: Ambassador Andrew J. WINTER embassy: Fajara, Kairaba Avenue, Banjul mailing address: P. M. B. No. 19, Banjul telephone: [220] 392856, 392858, 391970, 391971 FAX: [220] 392475 Flag: three equal horizontal bands of red (top), blue with white edges, and green Economy Overview: The Gambia has no important mineral or other natural resources and has a limited agricultural base. About 75% of the population is engaged in crop production and livestock raising, which contribute 30% to GDP. Small-scale manufacturing activity - processing peanuts, fish, and hides - accounts for less than 10% of GDP. A sustained structural adjustment program, including a liberalized trade policy, had fostered a respectable 4% rate of growth in recent years. Reexport trade constitutes one-third of economic activity; however, border closures associated with Senegal's monetary crisis in late 1993 led to a halving of reexport trade, reducing government revenues in turn. The 50% devaluation of the CFA franc in January 1994 has made Senegalese goods more competitive and apparently prompted a relaxation of Senegalese controls, paving the way for a comeback in reexports. But overwhelming these developments were the devastating effects of the military's takeover in July 1994. By October, traffic at the Port of Banjul had fallen precipitously as importers nervously scaled back their activities with the commencement of the anticorruption drive by the new regime. Concerned with the growing potential for serious unrest after a countercoup attempt was bloodily put down by the regime, the United Kingdom and the EU in November issued a travelers advisory for The Gambia, which brought a halt to tourism almost immediately. The Gambia faces additional problems in 1995 if, as is likely, economic sanctions by Western governments remain in effect in response to indications that the military regime intends to stay in power far longer than expected by the donors. National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $1 billion (1993 est.) National product real growth rate: NA% National product per capita: $1,050 (1993 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.5% (1993) Unemployment rate: NA% Budget: revenues: $94 million expenditures: $89 million, including capital expenditures of $24 million (FY92/93 est.) Exports: $81 million (f.o.b., FY92/93 est.) commodities: peanuts and peanut products, fish, cotton lint, palm kernels partners: Japan 60%, Europe 29%, Africa 5%, US 1%, other 5% (1989) Imports: $154 million (f.o.b., FY92/93 est.) commodities: foodstuffs, manufactures, raw materials, fuel, machinery and transport equipment partners: Europe 57%, Asia 25%, USSR and Eastern Europe 9%, US 6%, other 3% (1989) External debt: $286 million (FY92/93 est.) Industrial production: growth rate 6.7% Electricity: capacity: 30,000 kW production: 70 million kWh consumption per capita: 64 kWh (1993) Industries: peanut processing, tourism, beverages, agricultural machinery assembly, woodworking, metalworking, clothing Agriculture: accounts for 30% of GDP; one-third of food requirements is imported; major export crop is peanuts; other principal crops - millet, sorghum, rice, corn, cassava, palm kernels; livestock - cattle, sheep, goats; forestry and fishing resources not fully exploited Economic aid: recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $93 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $535 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $39 million Currency: 1 dalasi (D) = 100 butut Exchange rates: dalasi (D) per US$1 - 9.565 (January 1995), 9.576 (1994), 9.129 (1993), 8.888 (1992), 8.803 (1991), 7.883 (1990) Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June The Gambia:Transportation Railroads: 0 km Highways: total: 3,083 km paved: 431 km unpaved: gravel, crushed stone 501 km; unimproved earth 2,151 km Inland waterways: 400 km Ports: Banjul Merchant marine: total: 1 bulk ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 11,194 GRT/19,394 DWT Airports: total: 1 with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1 The Gambia:Communications Telephone system: 3,500 telephones; telephone density - 4 telephones/1,000 persons local: NA intercity: adequate network of radio relay and wire international: 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station Radio: broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 2, shortwave 0 radios: NA Television: broadcast stations: NA televisions: NA The Gambia:Defense Forces Branches: Army, Navy, National Police Manpower availability: males age 15-49 214,680; males fit for military service 108,659 (1995 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $14 million, 3.8% of GDP (FY93/94)