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whence
     1. adv. (archaic, formal, or literary) From where; from which place or source.
           Whence came I?
           "Pork" comes from French, whence we get most of our modern cooking terms.
     2. conj. (literary, poetic) Used for introducing the result of a fact that has just been stated.
           The work is slow and dangerous, whence the high costs.
           I scored more than you in the exam, whence we can conclude that I am better at the subject than you are.
came
     1. v. simple past tense of come
     2. v. simple past tense of cum
     3. prep. Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation
     4. n. A grooved strip of lead used to hold panes of glass together.
     come
          1. v. (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.
                She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes...
          2. v.          To move towards the speaker.
                        I called the dog, but she wouldn't come.
                        Stop dawdling and come here!
          3. v.          To move towards the listener.
                        Hold on, I'll come in a second.
                        You should ask the doctor to come to your house.
          4. v.          To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence.
                        No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit.
                        Hundreds of thousands of people come to Disneyland every year.
          5. v.          (in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause.
                        King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming.
                        He threw the boomerang, which came right back to him.
          6. v.          To move towards an unstated agent.
                        The butler should come when called.
          7. v. (intransitive) To arrive.
          8. v. (intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.
                The pain in his leg comes and goes.
          9. v. (intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
                Which letter comes before Y?   Winter comes after autumn.
          10. v. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
                He came after a few minutes.
          11. v. (copulative figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
                They came very close to leaving on time.   His test scores came close to perfect.
                One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart.
          12. v. (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
                He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits.
          13. v. (copulative, archaic) To become, to turn out to be.
                He was a dream come true.
          14. v. (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
                He's as tough as they come.   Our milkshakes come in vanilla, strawberry and chocolate flavours.
          15. v. (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
                You can't come any tricks here.
          16. v. (intransitive) Happen.
                This kind of accident comes when you are careless.
          17. v. (intransitive, with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
          18. v.          To have a certain social background.
          19. v.          To be or have been a resident or native.
                        Where did you come from?
          20. v.          To have been brought up by or employed by.
                        She comes from a good family.
                        He comes from a disreputable legal firm.
          21. v.          To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
                        The river comes from Bear Lake.
                        Where does this road come from?
          22. v. (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
          23. n. (obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
          24. n. (vulgar, slang) Semen
          25. n. (vulgar, slang) Female ejaculatory discharge.
          26. prep. Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time.
                Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoction to offer your guests.
                Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.
          27. interj. An exclamation to express annoyance.
                Come come! Stop crying.  Come now! You must eat it.
          28. interj. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
                Come come! You can do it.  Come now! It won't bite you.
          29. n. (typography) alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon.
     cum
          1. prep. Used in indicating a thing with two roles, functions, or natures, or a thing that has changed from one to another.
                He built a bus-cum-greenhouse that made a bold statement, but the plants in it didn't live very long.
          2. conj. 1=Used in indicating a thing with two or more roles, functions, or natures, or a thing that has changed from one to another.
                But instead of being a salesperson cum barista cum waitress merely serving the wordsmiths, I'm one of them, reading her latest baby out loud.
          3. n. (slang) Semen.
          4. n. (slang) Female ejaculatory discharge.
          5. n. (slang) An ejaculation.
          6. v. (slang) To have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.
          7. v. (slang) To ejaculate.
I
     1. pron. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.
             (audio, Here I am, sir.ogg, Audio)
     2. pron. (nonstandard, hypercorrection) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence.
     3. n. (metaphysics) The ego.
     4. n. (US, roadway) Interstate.
     5. n. (grammar) (abbreviation of instrumental case)
     6. pron. nonstandard spelling of I
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