combustive (kombustiv)

[ The alcohol has become acetic acid by the combustive action of the mycoderm. Lady Claud Hamilton , tr. of Life of Pasteur, p. 79. 21. Disposed to take fire; combustible. Bp . IMG:content-0852.png:[blocks in formation] combustuoust, a. come (kum), v.; pret. came, pp. come, ppr. com ing. [Early mod. E. also cum (ppr. also comming, cumming, pret. often come, com); mod. dial. come, pret.), pp. cumеп, со men ), cwome ), contr. of * cwiman (pret. com, cwom, pl. com on, cwōmon, for *cwam, pl. *cwamon, Pp. cumen ), = OS. kuman = OFries. kuma, ko ma, mod. Fries. kommen = MD. D. komen = MLG. LG. komen = OHG. queman, chweman, com an, choman, cum an, kuman, MHG. chomen, komen, kumen, G. kommen = Icel. koma = Sw. komma = Dan. komme = Goth. kwiman (pret. kwam, pl. kwēmum, etc., pp. kwumans ), come, L. ven - ire (for * guem -ire) (> F. Pr. Sp. venir = Pg. vir It. venire ), come, = Umbrian ben- =Oscan ben- =Gr. βαίν - ειν (for * βάνjειν for * γάνjειν ) = = =Zend gam = Skt. √ gam, OPers. Vgam, jam go. A very prolific root; from the E. word are derived comely, become, becoming, etc., income, oncome, outcome, etc.; from the L., advene, con vene, prevene, supervene, convenient, advent, con vent, event, invent, prevent, adventure, conventicle, venture, etc.; from the Gr., base, basis, bema, anabasis, catabasis, acrobat, etc.] I. in trans. 1. Primarily, to move with the purpose of reaching, or so as to reach, a more or le definite point, usually a point at which the speaker was, or is to be at the time spoken of, or at IMG:content-0853.png:[blocks in formation] And than he sente for the kynge, and he come , and brought Merlyn; and so the i come ridynge to the abbey, Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 52. IMG:content-0854.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0855.png:[blocks in formation] and herde me e. potayme. man of the country. wet coal. In the first case it is caused by the rapid spontaneous oxidation of oil, which raises the temperature sufficiently to make it burst into flame; in the second case a [I. 14.] All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my Job xiv. 14. change come. Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Ble ed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Luke xiii. 35. I am glad you are come so safe from Swi erland to Paris. Howell, Letters, I. vi. 15. come We came in an hour and a half to an old way cut with great labour over a Rocky Precipice, and in one hour more we arrived at Beer. Maundrell, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 64. In the Evening Captain Minchin and Mr. Richards and his Wife came aboard, having staid one night at the Fort; and told me all that had happened to them ashore. Dampier , Voyages, II. i. 177. I perceive, by the book in my hand, that I am condemned to die, and after that to come to judgment. Bunyan , Pilgrim's Progre , p. 84. [In this use the sign of the infinitive is occasionally omit IMG:content-0856.png:[blocks in formation] Specifically-4. To sprout or spring up; acrospire: as, the wheat is beginning to come. [In this use also found spelled comb. Compare comel, n., 2, 3, and coming, n., 3.] [The barley] vpon the cleane floore on a round heape, resteth so vntill it be readie to shoote at the roote end, which maltsters call coming . When it beginneth therefore to shoot in this maner, they saie it is come , and then forthwith they spread it abroad, first thicke and then thinner and thinner vpon the said floore, as it commeth . W. Harrison, Descrip. of England. It is reported that if you lay a good stock of kernels of grapes about the root of a vine it will make the vine come earlier and prosper better. Bacon , Nat. Hist. 5. To result. (a) To appear as the result or consequence of some act, practice, or operation: used either absolutely or with by or of: as, the butter comes in the churn; that comes of your carele ne . Usefulne comes by labour, wit by ease. G. Herbert. This comes of judging by the eye. Sir R. L'Estrange. Why sure she won't pretend to remember what she's ordered not! - ay, this comes of her reading! Sheridan, The Rivals, i. 2. One distinctive tenet... affirms that Brahmanism does devotional exercises. not properly cercis by caste or descent, but by learning and Lyall, quoted in W. E. Hearn's Aryan Household, p. 313. (b) To be equal or equivalent in result or effect when taken together or in sum: with to: as, the taxes come to a large sum; the total comes to $81,000; it comes to the same thing. 6. To happen; befall; occur; take place. Another with his finger and his thumb, Cried, "Via! we will do't, come what will come ." Shak ., L. L. L., v. 2. Eccl. ix. 2. All things come alike to all. So comes it, lady, you have been mistook. Shak ., T. N., v. 1. 7. To become; happen to be; chance to be. So came I a widow. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 3. How came my man in the stocks? Shak ., Lear, ii. 4. How came you and Mr. Surface so confidential? Sheridan , School for Scandal, i. 1. 8t. To be becoming. "Ne wep nozt," he sede, "leue sone, vor yt ne comth nogt to the." Rob. of Gloucester, p. 420. 9. In the imperative, interjectionally (often strengthened by by repetition or by the addition of other emphatic words): (a) Move along, or take a hand (with me, or the person speaking); unite in going or acting: as, come, come, let us be going! This is the heir; come , let us kill him. Mat. xxi. 38. Come ! said he to me, let us go a little way up the Fore shrouds; it may be that may make the Ship wear; for I have been doing it before now. Dampier , Voyages, II. iii. 64. (b) Attend; give heed; take notice; come to the point: used to urge attention to what is to be said, or to the subject in hand. Come, give me your promise to love, and to marry her directly. Sheridan, The Rivals, ii. 1. Come , come , open the matter in brief. Shak., T. G. of V., i. 1. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord. Isa. i. 18. " Come , I say," he remonstrated, "you are taking the W. Black . thing too much to heart." 10. To overflow. [Prov. Eng.]-[In the colloquial phrases come Friday, come Candle mas, for next Friday, next Candle mas, come is an imperative used cond i tionally: thus, let Friday come-that is, if or when Fri day comes. Certain the compound tenses of this verb were once regularly and are still frequently formed with the verb be instead of have. See bel, 5 (c). Come, with an adverb or a preposition, enters into a great number of expre ions, some highly idiomatic and requiring separate definition, and others which retain more obviously the meaning of their elements. The principal idiomatic phrases are here given.] - Come on! (a) Come along; join me in going. "Childe, come on with me, God hase herde thi prayer." Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 99. come (b) Approach; come at me: used in defiance or as a challenge: as, come on! I am not afraid of you. [Colloq.] Come your ways, come along; come hither. Shak.Cut and come again. See cut. To come (an infinitive qualifying preceding noun), to appear or arrive in the future: as, he was thinking of dangers to come. The prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come. Shak., Sonnets, cvii. To come about. (a) To happen; fall out; come to pa ; arrive: as, how did these things come about? (b) To turn; change; come round: as, the wind will come about from west to east; the ship came about. On better thoughts and my urged reasons, They are come about and won to the true side. B. Jonson, Cat i line, iv. 4. If you were just to let the servants forget to bring her dinner for three or four days, you can't conceive how she'd come about . Sheridan, The Rivals, i. 2. To come acro . See acro . - To come ami . See ami . To come and go, to advance and retire; move back and forth; alternate; appear and disappear. Also for worldly goods they come and go, as things not long proprietary to any body. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 38. The colour of the king doth come and go Between his purpose and his conscience. Shak., K. John, iv. 2. O fie! I'll swear her colour is natural: I have seen it come and go. Sheridan , School for Scandal, ii. 2. To come around. See to come round, below. -To come at, to reach; arrive within reach of; gain; come so near as to be able to take or po e ; attain: as, we prize those most who are hardest to come at; to come at a true know. ledge of ourselves. How could a Physician tell the Vertue of that Simple, unle he could come at it, to apply it? Selden , Table-Talk, p. 39. The Books... were lockt up in Wired cases, not to be come at without particular leave. Lister, Journey to Paris, p. 132. To come away. (a) Naut., to begin to move or yield: said of the anchor or anything that is being hauled. (b) To part or separate; break off: as, the branch came away in my hands. (c) To germinate or sprout; come on: as, the wheat is coming away very well. [Eng.] - To come by. (a) To pa near. 1120 Since this new preaching hath come in , there hath been much sedition. Latimer , Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. It [the fruit of the date] is esteem'd of a hot nature, and, as it comes in during the winter, being ripe in November, providence seems to have design'd it as a warm food, during the cold season, to comfort the stomach. Pococke , Description of the East, I. 206. Arbuthnot , Anc. Coins. Silken garments did not come in till late. (d) To enter as an ingredient or part of a compound thing. A generous contempt of that in which too many men place their happine must come in to heighten his character. Bp. Atterbury. If the law is too mild, private vengeance comes in, Emerson, Compensation. (e) To accrue from cultivation, an industry, or otherwise, as profit: as, if the corn comes in well, we shall have a supply without importation; the crops came in light. Sweet hearts, we shall be rich ere we depart, If fairings come thus plentifully in . Shak ., L. L. L., v. 2. (f) To calve; foal: said of cows and mares. [U. S.] To come in clipping-time. See clipping - time. - To come in for, to arrive in time to take; be in the way of obtaining; get; unite with others in getting a share or part of. Let God be honoured as he ought to be, let Religion come in for its share among all the things which deserve encouragement. Stilling fleet , Sermons, I. vii. Swift . The rest came in for subsidies. They come in for their share of political guilt. Add is on . To come into. (a) To join with; bring help to; also, and more generally, to agree to; comply with; give in one's adhesion to; unite with others in adopting: as, to come into a measure or scheme. Ready to come in to everything that is done for the publick good. Bp. Atterbury . (6) To acquire by inheritance or bequest: as, to come into an estate. To come into one's head, to occur to one's mind accidentally. Dear Dick, howe'er it comes into his head, Believes as firmly as he does his Creed, That you and I, Sir, are extremely great. Prior, To Mr. Harley. (b) To obtain; gain; acquire. I, as I neuer desired the title, so haue I neglected the meanes to come by it. Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie. In Symoniacall purchases he thinks his Soule goes in the bargaine, and is loath to come by promotion so deare. Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Graue Diuine. Examine how you came by all your state. Dryden, Aurengzebe. Sir W. Temple . To come of. (a) To i ue from; proceed from, as a descendant. Adam and alle that comen of him. Mandeville , Travels, p. 12. Ashur, of whom came the A yrians. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 44. Of Priam's royal race my mother came . Dryden, Æneid. To come down. (a) Literally, to descend. In comynge doun fro the Mount of Olyvete, is the place (b) To result from. where oure Lord wepte upon Jerusalem. Mandeville , Travels, p. 97. We came down into the valley to the bed of the brook Kedron, which is but a few paces over, and in many parts the valley itself is no wider. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 21. (b) To be transmitted. The fact and circumstances of Darius's voyage are come down to us, and by these very same means. Bruce , Source of the Nile, I. 456. (c) Figuratively, to be humbled or abased: as, his pride must come down. Your principalities shall come down. Jer. xiii. 18. (d) The at., to advance nearer to the footlights: opposed to to go up that is, to move away from the footlights.To come down on or upon, to descend suddenly upon; pounce upon; treat with severity; take to task; rate soundly; make a violent attack upon. The Abbey of Glastonbury, on which Henry VIII., in the language of our day, came down so heavily. H. James, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 51. To come down with, to pay over; lay down, as in payment. [Colloq.] Little did he foresee, when he said, "All is but dust!" how soon he would come down with his own. Dickens . To come down with the dust, to pay the money. [Slang.]-To come high or low, to be expensive or cheap; cost much or little. To come home. (a) To move toward or reach one's home or dwelling-place. (b) Naut.: (1) To drag or slip through the ground: said of an anchor in heaving up. (2) To reach the place intended, as a sail in hoisting, etc. (c) To go to the heart or the feelings; touch the feelings, interest, sympathies, or reason: with to as, his appeal came home to all. Come home to men's busine and bosoms. Bacon, Ded. of E ays (ed. 1625). To come in. (a) To enter, as into an inclosure or a port; make an entrance; appear, as upon a scene. I may recall the well-known fact that in geological treatises, published not many years ago, mammals were always spoken of as having abruptly come in at the commencement of the tertiary series. Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 288. (b) To submit to terms; yield. If the arch-rebel Tyrone should offer to come in . Spenser, State of Ireland. Many Citties which till that time would not bend, gave Hostages, admitted Garrisons, and came in voluntarily. Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. (c) To appear; begin to be, or be found or observed; especially, be brought into use. There can no falsehood come of loving her. Beau. and Fl ., King and No King, iii. 1. To come of age, to attain to the age of legal majority. See age , 3.- To come off. (a) To depart; move or turn away; withdraw; retreat. We might have thought the Jews when they had seen the destruction of Jerusalem would have come off from their obstinacy. Stilling fleet, Sermons, I. viii. (b) To escape; get free. If they come off safe, call their deliverance a miracle. Add is on, Travels in Italy. (c) To emerge from some undertaking or transaction; i ue; get out or away: as, to come off with honor or disgrace. come I'll bring him the best 'parel that I have, Come on 't what will. Shak ., Lear, iv. 1. To come on one for (something), to hold him liable or responsible for (it); depend upon him for (it). The moment Sir Oliver dies, you know, you would come on me for the money. Sheridan , School for Scandal, iii. 3. To come out. (a) To emerge; depart. Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins. Rev. xviii. 4. (b) To become public; appear; be published; come to knowledge or notice: as, the truth has come out at last; this book has just come out. The Gazettes come out but once a week and but few Lister, Journey to Paris, p. 22. people buy them. To read them "as they came out " in their evening paper. Contemporary Rev., LII. 480. (c) To expre one's self vigorously; throw off reserve and declare one's self; make an impre ion: as, he came out strong. [Colloq.] (d) To be introduced to general society; in a special sense, in England, to be presented at court: as, Mi B came out last season. (e) To appear after being clouded or obscured: as, the rain stopped and the sun came out. (f) To turn out to be; result from calculation. The weight of the denarius. comes out sixty-two grains and four-sevenths. Arbuthnot , Anc. Coins. To come out of. (a) To come forth or i ue from; figuratively, to get through with; come to the end of: as, to come out of prison; he has come out of that affair very well. Unclean spirits... came out of many that were po e ed with them. Acts viii. 7. (b) To be the i ue or descendant of. Kings shall come out of thee. Gen. xvii. 6. To come out well or ill, to result favorably or unfavorably; prove to be good or bad, distinct or blurred, etc., as an undertaking, a print, or the like. To come out with, to give publicity to; disclose. - To come over. A. With over as an adverb. In distillation, to rise and pa over, as vapor. Toluene, for example, nearly always comes over with benzine. Pop . Sci . Mo., XXV. 205. B. With over as a preposition. (a) To pa above or acro , or from one side to another; traverse: as, to come over a bridge or a road. Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. Josh. iv. 22. (b) To pa from an opposing party, side, or army to that one to which the speaker belongs. (c) To get the better of; circumvent; overcome; wheedle; cajole: as, you won't come over me in that way. [Colloq.] What a rogue's this! How cunningly he came over us! Middle ton, Chaste Maid, ii. 2. To come round or around. A. With round or around as an adverb. (a) To happen in due course; be fulfilled; come to pa . Farewell, my sorrows, and, my tears, take truce; My wishes are come round. Fletcher (and another ), Bloody Brother, v. 2. "O God be thank'd!" said Alice the nurse, "That all comes round so just and fair." Tennyson, Lady Clare. (b) To become favorable or reconciled after opposition or hostility: as, on second thought he will forget his anger and come round. (c) To recover; revive, as after fainting; regain one's former state of health. B. With round or around as a preposition. To wheedle, or get the better of by wheedling. The governe had come round everybody. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xi. To come short, to fail; be inadequate. To attain The highth and depth of thy eternal ways I know not what danger I undergo by this exploit; All human thoughts come short , Supreme of things! pray heaven I come well off ! Milton , P. L., viii. 414. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iv. 9. To come short of, to fail to reach or accomplish; attain IMG:content-0857.png:[blocks in formation] Come of , and let me ryden hastily. Ayenie [again] to werk am I sette, and I haste. Come of , let see who be the sharppe penne. Chaucer, Friar's Tale, 1. 304. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 140. (h) To cease (fooling, flattering, chaffing, or humbugging); desist: chiefly in the imperative: as, oh, come off! [Recent slang, U. S.] To come off roundlyt, to settle up handsomely. If he In th' old justice's suit, whom we robb'd lately, Will come off roundly, we'll set him free too. Middle ton, The Widow, iv. 2. Did Marwood come off roundly with his wages? Shirley, The Wedding, iv. 4. To come on. (a) To advance; make progre thrive; flourish as, the plants are coming on; the young man comes on well in his studies, (bt) To result from; come of. or obtain le than is desired. Men generally come short of themselves when they strive to out-doe themselves. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, Pref., p. xi. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Rom. iii. 23. Why, he was afraid that he should come short of whither he had a desire to go. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progre , p. 294. To come to. A. With to as an adverb. (at) To come to terms; consent; yield. Swift. (b) To recover; come round; revive, especially after fainting. (c) Naut., to turn the head nearer to the wind: as, the ship is coming to. What is this, if my parson will not come to? When it came to, the pilot was deceived, and said, Lord be merciful to us, my eyes never saw this place before. N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 47. (d) In falconry, to begin to get tame: said of a hawk. B. With to as a preposition. (a) To reach; attain; result in: as, to come to ruin, to good, to luck. Thou hear'st what wealth (he says, spend what thou canst), Thou 'rt like to come to. B. Jonson, Alchemist, i. 1. P. Hen. Trust me, I am exceeding weary. Poins. Is it come to that? I had thought wearine durst not have attached one of so high blood. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 2. If it come to prohibiting, there is not ought more likely to be prohibited then truth itself. Milton , Areopagitica, p. 54. (b) To fall or pa to. The other half Comes to the privy coffer of the state. Shak ., M. of V., iv. 1. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary come (c) To amount to: as, the taxes come to a large sum. And now I'll tell thee I have promised him As much as marriage comes to , and I lose My honour, if my Don receives the canvas. (dt) To become; come to be. Shirley, The Brothers, ii. 1. This Town of Hamburgh from a Society of Brewers is come to a huge wealthy Place. Howell , Letters, I. vi. 4. To come to anchor (formerly to an anchor), to anchor; bring up at anchor. We found it an Island of 6. myles in compa e: within a league of it we came to an anchor, and went on shore for wood and water. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's True Travels, I. 110. We came to an anchor in the port of Sibt. Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 303. To come to blows. See blow3. - To come to close quarters. See close2. - To come to grief, hand, heel, etc. See the nouns. - To come to nothing, to fail utterly; give no result; prove of no value: as, our efforts came to nothing. My going up now to the City was in order to have his [the chief of the Factory's) a istance in the Voyage to Cochin china, Champa, or Cambodia, which Captain Weldon had contrived for me; nor was it his fault that it came to no Dampier, Voyages, II. i. 14. thing. To come to one's self. (a) To recover one's senses or consciousne ; revive, as from a swoon. When I was a little come to myself again, I asked him wherefore he served me so? Bunyan , Pilgrim's Progre , p. 139. (b) To resume the exercise of right reason after a period of folly. When he came to himself, he said, How many hired ser: vants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! Luke xv. 17. To come to pa , to happen; fall out; be brought about. Bvt it came to pa e, when fortune fled farre from the Greekes and Latines, & that their townes florished no more in traficke, nor their Vniuersities in learning, as they had done continuing those Monarchies. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 7. And it shall come to pa , if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth. Deut. xxviii. 1. How comes it to pa , that... you now adventure to discover your self? Shirley, Grateful Servant, iii. 4. To come to the front. See front. To come to time, to be ready to go on with a pugilistic contest when "time is called; hence, to do what is expected of one; face difficulties; refuse to back out. [Colloq.] - To come true, to be verified. - To come up. (a) To ascend; rise. He that cometh up out of the midst of the pit. Isa. xxiv. 18. IMG:content-0859.png:[blocks in formation] To come upon the town. (at) To make one's début in town society or as a man about town. Five-and-twenty years ago the young Earl of Kew came upon the town , which speedily rang with the feats of his Thackeray , New comes, x. lordship. (b) To become a charge upon the public for support, as in a poorhouse: as, she was so poor she feared she would have to come upon the town. Also to come upon the parish. -To come up to, to attain to; amount to. Whose ignorant credulity will not Come up to the truth. Shak ., W. T., ii. 1. To come up to the mark, scratch, or chalk, to come to some mark or line where one ought to stand, especially to the scratch or line from which a race starts; hence, to meet one's engagements; do what one is expected to do. To come up with. (a) To overtake in following or pur suit. We came up with a party of men, who belonged to the sheik of Samwata. 1121 Often with an indefinite it. In his sleeves, which were long, He had twenty-four packs, Which was coming it strong. Bret Harte , Plain Language from Truthful James. 3. Naut ., to slacken: with up : as, to come up the tackle-fall. Never come up all your lower rigging at sea. Luce, Seamanship, p. 490. To come up the capstan, to turn the capstan the contrary way, for the purpose of slackening the cable on it. come (kum), n. [ But yee cast at his com me to keepen hym hence, Yee shall lose your lond & your life also. A lisa under of Macedoine (E. E. T. S.), 1. 473. 2. [Also coom ; pron. dial. kōm or köm.] The point of a radicle of malted grain, which, after kiln-drying, drops off during the proce of turning; in the plural, malt-dust. They form an excellent manure. Also called chive. come-at-ability (kum-at-a-bil'i-ti), n. [ able : see -bility .] Attainablene ; acce ibility. Sterne . [Colloq. and humorous.] come-at-able (kum-at'a-bl), a. [ come + at + -able.] Capable of being approached or come at; that may be reached, attained, or procured. [Colloq. and humorous.]