incomer
(ˈɪnˌkʌmə(r))
[f. in adv. + comer.]
One who comes in: in the general sense (opposed to outgoer) and with various specific applications; e.g. a. One who comes in or has come in from another place or country; a visitor, immigrant, or foreign resident. b. One who comes in where he is unwelcome or troublesome; an intruder; an invader. c. One who comes into a position or office relinquished by another; a successor. d. Sport. A bird that flies towards the sportsman.
| 1526 Tindale Gal. ii. 4 Be cause of incommers beynge falce brethren, which cam in amonge wother. 1613–18 Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 32 To foster a party against so dangerous an incommer, that was like to thrust them all out of doore. a 1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 469 The Samaritans..would not confesse themselves..Incommers from those trans-Euphratean nations. 1663 Gerbier Counsel B viij a, Kept Officers at the gates of the City, to invite all incomers to take refreshment in his Pallace. 1721 New Hampsh. Prov. Papers (1869) III. 817 note, Voted, yt all Pedlers and Incomers yt shall trade in this Province of New Hampshire shall pay 2½ per cent. for all their trade. 1816 J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 25 A body of troops is stationed, to take cognizance of incomers and outgoers. 1861 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XXII. ii. 325 Mutual accommodation between incomer and outgoer. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 44 Differences of manners, language and race between the native African and the Phoenician incomer. 1888 Law Times Rep. LVIII. 114/1 The outgoer is liable for one part and the incomer for the other half. |