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that earth fuel, a new material for cooking and firing purposes, has come to stay, i.e., its commercial success is assured.

1888. Pittsburg Bulletin. In the realm of advertising, the illustration has evidently come to stay. It attracts and retains the eye, and so serves a double purpose.

Come To, or Up To, Time, verbal phr. (pugilistic).—To answer the call of 'Time!' after the thirty seconds' rest between round and round; hence, by analogy, to be on the alert; to be ready.

1869. Whyte Melville, M. or N., p. 11. The surprise staggered him like a blow. From such blows, however, we soon come to time, willing to take any amount of similar punishment.

Come Tricks.—See Come, sense 2.

Come up Smiling, verbal phr. (pugilistic).—To laugh (or grin) at 'punishment'; hence (generally) to be superior to rebuff or disaster; to face defeat without flinching.

1887. John Strange Winter, That Imp, p. 67. And yet come up smiling at the end of it.

Come up to the Chalk;—See Scratch.

[Some other slang uses of the verb To Come are To Come the Artful = to essay to deceive; To Come the Heavy = to affect a vastly superior position; To Come the ugly = to threaten; To Come the Nob, or The Don = to put on airs; To Come the Lardy-Dardy = to dress for the public and 'look up to your clobber'; To Come the Serjeant = to issue peremptory orders; To Come the Spoon = to make love; To Come the Gypsy = to try to defraud; To Come the Rothschild = to pretend to be rich; and To Come the Traviata (prostitutes', now obsolete) = to feign consumption, to put on 'the Traviata cough' (q.v.) with a view to beguiling charitable males.]

Comflogisticate, verb (American).—To embarrass; put out of countenance; confuse; or hoax.—See Bamblustercate.

Comfoozled, adj. (rare).—Overcome; exhausted.

1836. Dickens, Pickwick, ch. xxxix., p. 340. 'Well,' said Sam, 'he's in a horrid state o' love; reg'larly comfoozled, and done over with it.'

Comfortable Importance or Comfortable Impudence, subs. (old).—A wife; also a mistress in a wife's position. Fr., Mon gouvernement. For synonyms, see Dutch.

Comical, subs, (common).—A napkin.

To be Struck Comical, verb. phr. (popular).—To be astonished.

Coming, ppl. adj. (old).—1. Wanton; forward; sexual.—See Come, sense 1.

1750. Fielding, Tom Jones, ch. xii. I dares to swear the wench was as willing as he, for she was always a forward kind of body. And when wenches are so coming, young men are not so much to be blamed neither, for to be sure they do no more than what is natural.

1785. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue, s.v.

2. (old).—Sexually capable.—See Come, sense 1.

Commercial, subs, (thieves')—See quot.

1886. Tit-Bits, 31 July, p. 252. He is one of the cleverest commercials (this is the polite name for rogues and vagabonds generally) on the road.

2. (common).—An abbreviation of 'commercial traveller.'

Commission or Mish, subs. (old).—A shirt. [From the Italian.—*