Meaning

• Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.

• Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.

• A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.

• A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.

• An entrance-fee.

• A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.

• A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.

• That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.