oncome

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To arrive; come to; come on.

   “This said, and shaking his long dark spear, then forward he hurl'd it Into the fullround buckler of Priamides Alexander; Right thro' his glittering shield oncame the redoubtable warspear, On still advanced, throughpiercing his breastplate's various-art-work [...]”

2. isim Advent, arrival, approach; onset.

   “I see the dawn or rather I feel the oncome of it.”

3. isim The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion.
4. isim The setting about of an action; development; progress.
5. isim An attack; an attack or onset of a disease, fit, or episode.

   “On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia.”

6. isim A mysterious disease or ailment.

   “This woman had acquired a considerable reputation among the ignorant by the pretended cures which she performed, especially in oncomes, as the Scotch call them, or mysterious diseases, which baffle the regular physician.”

7. isim A heavy fall of rain or snow; cloudburst.
8. isim The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece.