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▪ I. comer|ˈkʌmə(r)|
[f. come v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who comes; a visitor, an ‘arrival’.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. ii. 206 Freres with feir speeches fetten him þennes; For knowynge of Comers kepten [v.r. copeden] him as a Frere. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxx. 136 Ma þan xxxm of folke, withouten commers and gangers. 1526–34Tindale Mark vi. 31 There were many commers and goers. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. viii. 3 Whose gates he fownd fast shutt, ne living wight To..answere commers call. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. i. 21. 1659 J. Leak Waterwks. 34 For the facility of comers between the two Towns. 1775Johnson Tax. no Tyr. 11 To leave his house to a casual comer. 1865Trollope Belton Est. ix. 101 So Clara prepared for the arrival, and greeted the comer.
†b. with adverbs, about, again, by, in, out, etc.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. ii. 41 For knihtes of Cuntre and Comers aboute. 1388Wyclif Ezek. xxxv. 7 Y shal take awei fro it a goere and a comere aȝen. c1400Apol. Loll. 68 Þe disciplis lowse þe comar out. 1576Gascoigne Steele Gl. (Arb.) 65 And shewe their scarres to every commer by. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxxix. (1887) 216 Comers in, and goers out of one countrey into another. 1800Bentham Wks. X. 356 Comers-in by birth; comers-in by migration.
c. often qualified by a word prefixed, as first, next comer, chance-, new-comer, incomer.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xix. 140 Buryden his body & beden þat men sholde Kepen it fro niȝt-comeres. 1526Tindale Gal. ii. 4 Be cause of incommers. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par., Matt. iv. 33 Farre cummers, out of other straunge countreyes. 1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. i. ix. 82 Offering themselves to the next commer. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 183 Treat their new comers with breach of faith. 1811Coleridge in Southey's Life of Bell (1844) II. 645 Disagreeable even to foot-comers, and far more so to carriages. 1842Tennyson Will Waterproof i, But let it not be such as that You set before chance-comers.
d. all comers: everybody or anybody that comes or chooses to come. Also used attrib. and ellipt. of an ‘open’ sporting event.
1568Grafton Chron. II. 380 The king..who all that tyme kept open household for all honest commers. 1614Bp. Hall Contempl. O.T. vi. iv, To stand alone, and challenge all comers. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1709) 118 The Temple of Honour stands open to all Comers. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. iv. (1889) 31 To make his rooms pleasant to all comers. 1867Morley Burke (1888) 28 Where Johnson did conversational battle with all comers. 1883Illustr. Sporting & Dram. News 6 Jan. 407/3 At the Sydney Regatta on November 9, Laycock managed to secure a win in the All-comers Sculling Race. 1890C. G. Heathcote Lawn Tennis iv. 170 At Wimbledon Mr. Lawford ..won the All Comers prize. 1912A. W. Myers Compl. Lawn Tennis Player (ed. 3) i. 15 In 1880 I defended the cup against Lawford who had won the All-Comers! 1959Times 24 Aug. 4/1 The Dutchman..also beat the British all-comers' figures.
†2. A grower or springer up: said (with qualification) of a plant. Obs.
1626Bacon Sylva §594 These latter sort [of plants] are all swift and hasty Comers.
3. A person or animal that shows promise of development or achieving success; one who is ‘coming on’ (see come v. 66 b). colloq. (chiefly U.S.).
1879St. Nicholas Mag. Nov. 84/2 A crab..is always very poor to begin with; but he eats everything he gets hold of, which..fattens him up some. Then he is called a ‘comer’. 1890H. Palmer Base Ball Field 91 He piled up error after error, but Dan said he was a ‘comer’. 1903Rep. Kansas State Board Agric. 1901–2 202 He..still shows that remarkable looseness and elasticity of hide that indicates a ‘comer’ when he is put next to the feed-box. 1959Sunday Express 15 Feb. 10/2 The younger man..is a ‘comer’, a diplomat with a future. 1965Guardian 31 May 9/7 Congressman John Lindsay..has sprung into national notice as the most attractive ‘comer’ in his party.
▪ II. comer(e
obs. f. cumber, cummer. |