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Come sb.2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2022. Come sb.2 Now chiefly dial. Also 5 pl. comys, 7 coom, 9 coomb, comb. [Known only from 15th c., but app. cognate with mod.G. keim in same sense, and thus repr. an OE. *cám:—OTeut. type *kaimo- in ablaut relation to *kîmo-, *kîmon-, whence OHG. chîm, chîmo. It has app. been sometimes confused with prec.; cf. COME v. in sense 14.]

1   The radicle of barley or other grain which in malting is allowed to develop to a certain point, and is then dried up by the process of roasting, and afterwards separated from the malt. In earlier quots. the acrospire was perhaps included.

2 c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 89. Comys of malte [1499 commys], pululata.

3 1615.  Markham, Eng. Housew., II. vii. (1668), 171. You shall rub it [the Malt] exceeding well between your hands, to get the Come or sprouting clean away. Ibid. The falling off of the come or sprout when it is throughly dryed.

4 1671.  Grew, Anat. Plants, I. i. 3. In Corn [the Radicle] is that Part, which Malsters, upon its shooting forth, call the Come.

5 1783.  Ainsworth, Lat. Dict. (Morell), I. Come, small strings of malt.

6 1872.  Oliver, Elem. Bot., II. 279. The sprouted radicles (called coombs or chives) are broken off and separated.

7 1888.  W. Somerset Word-bk., s.v. Combings, In the process of malting each corn of barley grows a very distinct root—called combings or combs.

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