come

Definitions

1. Coming, arrival; approach.
   obsolete, uncountable
2. Semen
   slang, uncountable, vulgar
3. Semen ejaculated during orgasm.
4. Female ejaculatory discharge.
   slang, uncountable, vulgar
5. To cause to be in conflict or estrangement.
6. To acquire, especially as an inheritance: She came into a fortune on her 21st birthday.
7. To discover or meet by accident.
8. To accompany someone; go along: I'm going to the store; do you want to come with?
9. To fail utterly.
10. Used as a request to repeat what was said.
11. To confess all.
12. To punish, oppose, or reprimand severely and often with force: a district attorney who came down hard on drug dealers.
13. To become sick with (an illness): came down with the flu.

Equivalents

Examples

““If we count⟳ three before the come⟳ of thee, thwacked thou art, and must go to the women.””

“When a man uses a condom during sex, he takes all of his come⟳ with him, preventing her from getting pregnant.”

“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.”

“Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point⟳ called come⟳, answering to our colon-point, a point⟳ called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close⟳ of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.”

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