A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1375, 1644
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Up-come, Upcom, n. [19th c. Eng. upcome (c1874); Come n.] a. A way up, slope. = Up-cumming vbl. n. 1 b. b. In the phrase If all be good that is up-come, if all is as good as it looks (cf. SND Upcome n. 2). —a. 1375 Barb. vi 167 (C).
He left lyand Sa feill that the vpcom [E. wpcummyng] wes … Dittit with slayn hors and men —b. 1644 Hume Douglas 235.
A courtier … cast in a word of doubting and disparaging: It is true, said he, if all be good that is up-come; meaning if his action and valour were answerable to his personage and body
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