downcome, n.
(ˈdaʊnkʌm)
[f. down adv. + come v.; cf. income, outcome.]
1. The act of coming down (lit. and fig.); descent, downfall; humiliation.
| 1513 Douglas æneis iii. iv. 59 At douncom of thir Harpyis. 1594 Southwell M. Magd. Fun. Teares 101 Love's feares will stoope to the lowest downecome. 1641 Milton Reform. i. (1851) 7 Like the sudden down-come of a Towre. 1815 Scott Rob Roy xix, It's a brave kirk..It had amaist a doun-come lang syne at the Reformation. 1877 Mrs. 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.
| 1575 Turberv. Faulconrie 9 Making hir downecomme, and stouping from hir wings. 1674 N. 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. 1698 Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 219 Tropick Birds..stooping to their Game..perform it at one down-come. |
2. Metallurgy. (See quot.)
| 1881 Raymond 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. |