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Downcome

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A tumbling or falling down; a sudden or heavy fall; an overthrow; ruin; destruction.

    "And doutles, when ever the Pope shall fall, if his ruine bee not like the sudden down-come of a Towre, the Bishops, when they see him tottering, will leave him, and fall to scrambling […]"

  2. 2
    In ironmaking, a pipe that leads combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.
  3. 3
    A downpour of rain.
Verb
  1. 1
    To come down; fall down; come or fall apart.

    "Mirage-bound and moving blind, he downcomes, Up-growing from his sapling game In the laughing park, Bearing the stolen spark"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From down- + come.

Etymology 2

From down- + come.

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