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onfall|ˈɒnfɔːl|
[f. on-1 4 + fall n.]
1. An attack or access of disease, plague, or calamity. Now Sc.
c1000Saxon Leechd. II. 104 Drenc wiþ onfealle. a1300Cursor M. 5943 Ful yern on godd bi-gun þai call To liuer þe folk on þat on-fall. Ibid. 27738 Wreth it es a brath on-fall. 1808–18Jamieson, Onfall, a disease which attacks without any apparent cause.
2. gen. An attack, assault, onset. (lit. and fig.)
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. vii. iii, Death by starvation and military onfall. 1880M. Pattison Milton vi. 76 A violent personal onfall upon Joseph Hall. 1889Doyle Micah Clarke xxxii. 341 Who ever saw a camp so exposed to an onfall?
3. Sc.
a. A fall of rain or snow.
b. The fall of the evening.
a1800Old Song (Jam.), But or the onfa' o' the nicht, She fand him drown'd in Yarrow. 1821Ayr Courier 1 Feb. (Jam.) The snow lay thick..but the on-fall had ceased. |