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"Our Lord cometh;" -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, "May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes." See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema.…

l, sand, or water. If it were not for these principles, the bodies of the earth, planets, comets, sun, and all things in them, would grow cold and freeze, and become inactive masses. Sir I. Newton. A deep mass of continual sea is slower stirred To rage. Savile.

Chaucer. -- Meas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Meas"ur*a*bly, adv. Yet do it measurably, as it becometh Christians. Latimer.

The Messiah. I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ. John iv. 25.

uffering heroes." Pope. Thou art much mightier than we. Gen. xxvi. 16. Excellent speech becometh not a fool, much less do lying lips a prince. Prov. xvii. 7. Henceforth I fly not death, nor would prolong Life much. Milton. All left the world much as they found it. Sir W. Temple.

A bearer of news; a courier; a newspaper. [Obs.] There cometh a news thither with his horse. Pepys.

dle (see Illust. of Karyokinesis) or the nuclear fibrils of a cell; the nuclear part of a comet, etc.

The body or the head of a comet.

A cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin. [Obs.] Woe to that man by whom the offense cometh! Matt. xviii. 7.

An instrument for registering the changes observable with an oncometer.

Among or around the stars. "Comets in periastral passage." R. A. Proctor.

apogee. It is sometimes, but rarely, used of the nearest points of other orbits, as of a comet, a planet, etc. Called also epigee, epigeum.

That point of the orbit of a planet or comet which is nearest to the sun; -- opposed to Ant: aphelion.

to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.

g from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once connected with a comet visible in 1862.

bout the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system.

foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.

ndition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment. Milton. Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. Ps. lxxv. 6.

To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child. It becometh not such a gallant to whine and pule. Barrow.

A magpie; a piet. [Prov. Eng.] Here cometh the worthy prelate as pert as a pyet. Sir W. Scott.