Come v. i. [imp. Came p. p. Come p. pr & vb. n. Coming.]
 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. “Thy kingdom come.”
    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. “This is the heir; come, let us kill him.” --Matt. xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste, or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. “Come, come, no time for lamentation now.”
 To come, yet to arrive, future. “In times to come.” --Dryden. “There's pippins and cheese to come.” --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. “The wind is come about.” --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. “Am come abroad to see the world.” --Shak. (b) To become public or known. [Obs.] “Neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad.” --Mark. iv. 22.
 To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or suddenly. “We come across more than one incidental mention of those wars.” --E. A. Freeman. “Wagner's was certainly one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever came across.” --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. “His spirit came again and he revived.” --Judges. xv. 19. - - To come and go. (a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. “The color of the king doth come and go.” --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. “Examine how you came by all your state.” --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. “The thief cometh in.” --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. “We need not fear his coming in” --Massinger. (e) To be brought into use. “Silken garments did not come in till late.” --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. “The rest came in for subsidies.” --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 To come nigh, to approach in place or quality; to be equal to. “Nothing ancient or modern seems to come near it.” --Sir W. Temple.
 To come of. (a) To descend or spring from. “Of Priam's royal race my mother came.” --Dryden. (b) To result or follow from. “This comes of judging by the eye.” --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.] “To come off by the worst.” --Calamy.
 To come off from, to leave. “To come off from these grave disquisitions.” --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. “They shall come out with great substance.” --Gen. xv. 14. (b) To become public; to appear; to be published. “It is indeed come out at last.” --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 announce a position publicly; as, he came out against the tariff.  (g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.
 To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.
 To come over. (a) To pass from one side or place to another. “Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to them.” --Addison. (b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.
 To come over to, to join.
 To come round. (a) To recur in regular course. (b) To recover. [Colloq.] (c) To change, as the wind. (d) To relent. --J. H. Newman. (e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]
 To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” --Rom. iii. 23.
 To come to. (a) To consent or yield. --Swift. (b) Naut. (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor. (c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon. (d) To arrive at; to reach. (e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum. (f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance. --Shak.
 To come to blows. See under Blow.
 To come to grief. See under Grief.
 To come to a head. (a) To suppurate, as a boil. (b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.
 To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.
 To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.
 To come to the scratch. (a) Prize Fighting To step up to the scratch or mark made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in beginning a contest; hence: (b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely. [Colloq.]
 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 “time” 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.


 Go, v. i. [imp. Went p. p. Gone p. pr. & vb. n. Going. Went comes from the AS, wendan. See Wend, v. i.]
 1. To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be in a state not motionless or at rest; to proceed; to advance; to make progress; -- used, in various applications, of the movement of both animate and inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the movements of the mind; also figuratively applied.
 2. To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to walk step by step, or leisurely.
 Note: ☞ In old writers go is much used as opposed to run, or ride. “Whereso I go or ride.”
 You know that love
 Will creep in service where it can not go.   --Shak.
    Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long that going will scarce serve the turn.   --Shak.
    He fell from running to going, and from going to clambering upon his hands and his knees.   --Bunyan.
 Note: ☞ In Chaucer go is used frequently with the pronoun in the objective used reflexively; as, he goeth him home.
 3. To be passed on fron one to another; to pass; to circulate; hence, with for, to have currency; to be taken, accepted, or regarded.
    The man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.   --1 Sa. xvii. 12.
    [The money] should go according to its true value.   --Locke.
 4. To proceed or happen in a given manner; to fare; to move on or be carried on; to have course; to come to an issue or result; to succeed; to turn out.
    How goes the night, boy ?   --Shak.
    I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough.   --Arbuthnot.
    Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward.   --I Watts.
 5. To proceed or tend toward a result, consequence, or product; to tend; to conduce; to be an ingredient; to avail; to apply; to contribute; -- often with the infinitive; as, this goes to show.
    Against right reason all your counsels go.   --Dryden.
    To master the foul flend there goeth some complement knowledge of theology.   --Sir W. Scott.
 6. To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake.
    Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood.   --Sir P. Sidney.
 Note: ☞ Go, in this sense, is often used in the present participle with the auxiliary verb to be, before an infinitive, to express a future of intention, or to denote design; as, I was going to say; I am going to begin harvest.
 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. “They went about to slay him.”
    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 To go in 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 with, To go ill with,  To go 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; to unexpectedly cause a mishap or failure. (d) To miss success; to fail.
 To let go, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to release.