noun

• Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
• (business, commerce) Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.
• (obsolete) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
• (archaic or dialectal, Scotland) A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
• (obsolete) An entrance-fee.
• (archaic) A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
• (UK dialectal, Scotland) 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.