Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fall of rain or snow.
- noun The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one that requires great exertion, as in making an attack.
- noun An attack, as of disease.
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- verb intransitive, rare To
arrive ; come to; come on. - noun
Advent ,arrival ,approach ;onset - noun The
commencement orinitial stages of abusiness , especially of one which requires greatexertion . - noun The setting about of an action;
development ;progress . - noun An
attack ; an attack or onset of adisease , fit, or episode. - noun dialectal A
mysterious disease orailment . - noun dialectal A heavy fall of rain or snow;
cloudburst . - noun The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece.
Etymologies
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Examples
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'Ay, I hae,' came the unexpected response, 'whiles i' the "oncome" or
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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As he watched and waited there stole down from the fells above him 'oncome' of mist or 'haar' from the eastward, which soon drew a plaid of hodden grey above the shoulder of Shillmoor.
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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Come oncome on Todd seemed to will the words as much as say them.
The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading Charity Tahmaseb 2009
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Come oncome on Todd seemed to will the words as much as say them.
The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading Charity Tahmaseb 2009
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Between twelve and one that Sunday night Katharine lay in bed, not asleep, but in that twilight region where a detached and humorous view of our own lot is possible; or if we must be serious, our seriousness is tempered by the swift oncome of slumber and oblivion.
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BETWEEN twelve and one that Sunday night Katharine lay in bed, not asleep, but in that twilight region where a detached and humorous view of our own lot is possible; or if we must be serious, our seriousness is tempered by the swift oncome of slumber and oblivion.
Night and Day 1920
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The oncome of summer, the first thrill of autumn, how did he bear them?
Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron Mary Cholmondeley 1892
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With what splendid rigidity the escorts 'burnished lines walled in its oncome.
Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884
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Miranda, and the battery lads to their girls, from whose hands they began to wring wild good-byes as a peal of fifes and drums heralded the oncome of the departing regiment.
Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884
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Some fowk thoucht it a guid sign that he hadna cairried the body wi 'him; but maybe he was ower suddent scared by the fut o' the priest's horse upo 'the drawbrig, an' dauredna bide his oncome.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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