Definition of "oncome" [oncome]

• To arrive; come to; come on. (verb)
• Advent, arrival, approach; onset (noun)
• The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion. (noun)
• The setting about of an action; development; progress. (noun)
• An attack; an attack or onset of a disease, fit, or episode. (noun)

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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."
• "'Ay, I hae,' came the unexpected response, 'whiles i' the "oncome" or"
• "Come oncome on Todd seemed to will the words as much as say them."