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downcome, n.|ˈdaʊnkʌm|
[f. down adv. + come v.; cf. income, outcome.]
1. The act of coming down (lit. and fig.); descent, downfall; humiliation.
1513Douglas æneis iii. iv. 59 At douncom of thir Harpyis. 1594Southwell M. Magd. Fun. Teares 101 Love's feares will stoope to the lowest downecome. 1641Milton Reform. i. (1851) 7 Like the sudden down-come of a Towre. 1815Scott Rob Roy xix, It's a brave kirk..It had amaist a doun-come lang syne at the Reformation. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. iii. 79 That sense of downcome which is, of all sensations of poverty, the most hard to bear.
b. Hawking. A swoop down.
1575Turberv. Faulconrie 9 Making hir downecomme, and stouping from hir wings. 1674N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. ii. (1677) 178 The Faulcon..hath a natural inclination and love to fly the Hern every way, either from her Wings to the down⁓come, or from the Fist and afore-head. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 219 Tropick Birds..stooping to their Game..perform it at one down-come.
2. Metallurgy. (See quot.)
1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Downcome, the pipe through which tunnel-head gases from iron blast-furnaces are brought down to the hot-blast stoves and boilers, when these are below the tunnel-head. |