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  • n. The answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of come.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The answer to the theme (dux) in a fugue.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In ancient Rome and the Roman empire, a companion of or attendant upon a great person; hence, the title of an adjutant to a proconsul or the like, afterward specifically of the immediate personal counselors of the emperor, and finally of many high officers, the most important of whom were the prototypes of the medieval counts. See count.
  • n. [ML.] In early and medieval usage, a book containing the epistles to be used at mass; an epistolary; more specifically, the ancient missal lectionary of the Roman Church, containing the epistles and gospels, and said to have been drawn up by St. Jerome.
  • n. [NL.] In music, the repetition of the subject or “dux” of a fugue by the second voice at the interval of a fourth or fifth. Also called consequent, or answer.
  • n. [NL.] In anatomy, a vessel accompanying another vessel or other structure.
  • n. In astronomy, a small companion star in any double, triple, or multiple ‘system.’
  • Word Usage
    "When God's Word comes to such an one, and shows him his wretched state, when he _comes to himself_, his penitence is likely to be deep and painful, and when he is enabled to believe, his faith will probably be quite joyful, because he realizes the depth from which he was drawn."
    Verb Stem
    come   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bums    becomes    bums    chums    crumbs    drums    gums    hums    mums    plums   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    length    evening    break    last    rest    window    most    liberty    sight    dinner