2. Noun. Advent, arrival, approach; onset ¹
3. Noun. The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion. ¹
4. Noun. The setting about of an action; development; progress. ¹
5. Noun. An attack; an attack or onset of a disease, fit, or episode. ¹
6. Noun. (dialectal) A mysterious disease or ailment. ¹
7. Noun. (dialectal) A heavy fall of rain or snow; cloudburst. ¹
8. Noun. (context: of a chimney) The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oncome
1. a coming on [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oncome
Literary usage of Oncome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"oncome, anything that comes on, as a fall of rain, snow, etc. " He gat away afore
the oncome ..."
2. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Harry Haldane, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"oncome, anything that comes on, as a fall of rain, snow, etc. ' He gat away afore
the oncome ..."
3. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"... Good oncome" may signify successful attack. 3. An attack of disease, South of S.
good oncome,—a fear for the ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1900)
"the oncome of flge '; There are many conditions of advancing life in which •!
fellows' Syrup of ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1886)
"In the sixth, chronic asthma lessens in severity and finally disappears with the
oncome of insanity : when the mental defect becomes chronic with some ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1836)
"... and have learnt at the same time that the genuine form is oncome. The Icelandic
word also denotes a sudden shower, analogous to the Yorkshire and ..."
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