Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tumbling or falling down; especially, a sudden or heavy fall; hence, ruin; destruction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Sudden fall; downfall; overthrow.
- noun (Iron Manuf.) A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
tumbling orfalling down; a sudden or heavy fall; anoverthrow ;ruin ;destruction . - noun In
ironmaking , apipe that leadscombustible gases downward from the top of theblast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned. - verb To come down; fall down; come or fall apart.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But little cause have I to speak, for I too am a downcome.
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It's just more bad luck than anything else that you should have gone to the expense of setting up in style in a lord's castle and then having this downcome.
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It's just more bad luck than anything else that you should have gone to the expense of setting up in style in a lord's castle and then having this downcome.
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` ` Thou maun do without horse-sheet and surcingle now, lad, '' he said, addressing the animal; ` ` you and me hae had a downcome alike. we had better hae fa'en in the deepest pool o 'Tarras.' '
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"P.S. – The Carmichaels of Rosscraig are just ruined with feasting and wasting, and their place is to be sold and everything roupit – a sair downcome for their name."
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If it had only been the arm of flesh we had to encounter, we were noways afraid -- though it was a sad downcome from the solemn awe of coming to grips with the prince of darkness and his emissaries.
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It was a downcome, though, for a man who had been proud of driving behind his own horseflesh to pack in among a crowd of the Barbie sprats.
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Again, that success would be a salve to Gourlay's wounded pride; the Gourlays would show Barbie they could flourish yet, in spite of their present downcome.
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"Pride _will_ have a downcome," said some, with a gleg look and a smack of the lip, trying to veil their personal malevolence in a common proverb.
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What a downcome from his dignity to be the patron of a golf course or the chaplain of a curling club, instead of enjoying the fame and name of the holy well.
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