To move nearer to the point of perspective.
She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes the wrong way […]
To arrive.
Late at night comes Mr. Hudson, the cooper, my neighbour, and tells me that he come from Chatham this evening at five o'clock, and saw this afternoon "The Royal James," "Oake," and "London," burnt by the enemy with their fire-ships: […]
To appear; to manifest itself; to cause a reaction by manifesting.
The pain in his leg comes and goes.
Coming, arrival; approach.
“If we count three before the come of thee, thwacked thou art, and must go to the women.”
Semen
When a man uses a condom during sex, he takes all of his come with him, preventing her from getting pregnant.
Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.
Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoction to offer your guests.
An exclamation to express annoyance.
Come come! Stop crying.
An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
Come come! You can do it.
From Middle English comen, cumen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step”), from *gʷem- (“to step...
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Alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon.
There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative.