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Definition of Come to hand
1. Verb. Be revealed or disclosed. "The truth finally came to light"
Definition of Come to hand
1. Verb. To become available, often unexpectedly, or randomly. ¹
2. Verb. (US horses) To perform well, to come under control. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Come To Hand
Literary usage of Come to hand
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1877)
"... feel some regret that they have not come to hand with the one now before us,
that they might have been noticed together and in some detail. ..."
2. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"I find no despatches from you among tbe letters that have come to hand ; nor
anything from Holland bnt duplicates of letters from M. Dumas. ..."
3. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"... and helping to bring the fleet with safety into Plymouth. structions of 28
June for going to the westward to his former station have come to hand. ..."
4. Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1826-1836 by Thomas Carlyle (1888)
"for which a much more important Parcel in Edinburgh must be waiting, have never
come to hand. For little, I would kick my foot through the whole ..."
5. The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson ... Captain by Thomas Hutchinson, Peter Orlando Hutchinson (1884)
"... alledging they acted as his Factors, which he utterly denies. No news yet of
any letters by Lyde, nor are any yet come to hand to the ..."
6. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"... just come to hand. It is truly a unique. The specimens formerly published did
very well to laugh at ; but a whole quarto of nonsense and gibberish is ..."
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