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; 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.

A gripping device, as for stretching wire, etc., consisting of two jaws so attached to a ring that they are closed by pulling on the ring.

One who comes out or withdraws from a religious or other organization; a radical reformer. [Colloq. U. S.]

An actor or player in comedy. "The famous comedian, Roscius." Middleton.

A women who plays in comedy.

A dramatic sketch; a brief comedy.

A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).

A downfall; an humillation. [Colloq.]

and the termination of the plot is happy; -- opposed to tragedy. With all the vivacity if comedy. Macaulay. Are come to play a pleasant comedy. Shak.

In a suitable or becoming manner. [R.] Sherwood.

The quality or state of being comely. Comeliness is a disposing fair Of things and actions in fit time and place. Sir J. Davies. Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit. Milton. Comeliness signifies something less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than prettiness. Johnson.…

leasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good- looking; handsome. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul disfigurement But boast themselves more comely than before. Milton.

One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present. All comers, all who come, or offer, to take part in a matter, especially in a contest or controversy. "To prove it against all comers." Bp. Stillingfleet.

The answer to the theme (dux) in a fugue.

A reveling; a rioting. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent. Some herbs are most comestible. Sir T. Elyot.

e sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. A comet commonly consists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting. See Illustration in Appendix.

A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets.

An instrument, intended to represent the revolution of a comet round the sun. Hutton.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a comet. Cheyne.