Comether

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Comether \Co*meth"er\, n. [Prob. dial. pron. of come hither,
     used in calling cows, etc.] [Dial. or Colloq., Brit.]
     1. Matter; affair.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. Friendly communication or association.


  
     {To put the comether on} or {To put one's comether on}, to
        exercise persuasion upon; to get under one's influence; to
        beguile; to wheedle.
  
              How does ut come about, sorr, that whin a man has
              put the comether on wan woman he's sure bound to put
              ut on another?                        --Kipling.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]