Meaning of oncome | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Advent, arrival, approach; onset.
2. The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion.
3. The setting about of an action; development; progress.
4. An attack; an attack or onset of a disease, fit, or episode.
5. A mysterious disease or ailment.
   dialectal
6. A heavy fall of rain or snow; cloudburst.
   dialectal
7. The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece.

Examples

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

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

“"She often has oncomes," explained Angus shortly. "But now we will tell, for though but children, we talk straighter."”

“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.”

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