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C — Come to Communication (Part 2 of 11)

Comely, a.

    1. Becoming, fitting, suitable, seemly, decorous, decent.
    2. Symmetrical, graceful, pretty, handsome, beautiful.

Come near. Approximate, approach.

Come of. Proceed, issue, grow out of, originate from, arise from, be derived from.

Come on.

    1. Advance.
    2. Succeed, thrive.

Come-outer, n. [U. S.] Radical, radical reformer, repudiator of established usages.

Come round. Change, veer.

Come short. Fail, be deficient, be wanting.

Comet, n. Blazing star.

Come to.

    1. Consent or yield to.
    2. Amount to.
    3. Recover (as from fainting), return to consciousness.

Come to a head.

    1. Mature, suppurate, fester.
    2. Come to a crisis, mature, be consummated.

Come to grief. (Colloq.)

    1. Fail, result disastrously.
    2. Be ruined, meet with disaster, come to a bad end.