And raising one by one the suppliant crew, To comfort each. Dryden's Knight's Tale. If one must be rejected, one succeed, Make him my lord, within whose faithful breast, Is fixed my image, and who loves me best.

Id.

Night came on not by degrees prepared, But all at once; at once the winds arise, The thunders roll. Id. Cimon and Iphigenia. Fuscinus, those ill deeds that sully fame, In blood once tainted, like a current run From the lewd father to the lewder son.

Dryden. It is one thing to draw outlines true, the features like, the proportions exact, the colouring tolerable, and another thing to make all these graceful.

A sign-post dauber would disdain to paint The oneeyed heroe on his elephant.

Id.

Id.

It is one thing to think right, and another thing to know the right way to lay our thoughts before others with advantage and clearness. Locke.

Suppose the common depth of the sea, taking one place with another, to be about a quarter of a mile. Burnet.

There can be no reason why we should prefer any one action to another, but because we have greater hopes of advantage from the one than from the other. Smallridge.

Arbitrary power tends to make a man a bad sovereign, who might possibly have been a good one, had he been invested with an authority limited by law. Addison's Freeholder.

My legs were closed together by so many wrappers one over another, that I looked like an Egyptian

mummy.

The mighty family

Addison.

This evil fortune which attends extraordinary men, hath been imputed to divers causes that need not be set down, when so obvious an one occurs, that when a great genius appears, the dunces are all in conspiracy against him. Swift.

A good acquaintance with method will greatly assist every one in ranging human affairs. Watts. Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair and placid; where collected all one impetuous torrent down the steep It thundering shoots.

Thomson.

New forms in dire vicissitude invade, The rustling brake alarms and quivering shade; Nor light, nor darkness, brings his pain relief, One shows the plunder, a u one hides the thief.

Johnson.

God, working ever on a social plan,
By various ties attaches man to man :
He made at first, though free and unconfined,
One man the common father of the kind. Cowper.
Has One that notices his silent grief.
The wretch that works, and weeps without relief,.

He, from whose hands alone all power proceeds,
Ranks its abuse amongst the foulest deeds;
Considers all injustice with a frown,

But marks the man that treads his fellow down.

And she may now be as discreet and wise, As once absurd in all discerning eyes. Sobriety perhaps may now be found

Where once intoxication pressed the ground. Id. self on another that happens to come in the way, is. When one is vexed by one person, to revenge one's the vilest injustice.

• Sheridan.

But pause one moment more and take The curse of him thou didst forsake, And look once more to heaven, and see Its love for ever shut from thee. Byron. Who, when terror and doubt through the universe While rapine and treason their standards unfurled, reigned, The heart and the hopes of his country maintained, And one kingdom preserved midst the wreck of the world. Canning.

ONEEHOW, one of the Sandwich Islands, in the North Pacific, about forty miles in circumference. It is fruitful in yams, and contains about 10,000 inhabitants. The coast is high, and rises on the east abruptly from the sea; the rest of the island consists of low ground, except a round bluff head on the south-east point.

ONEGA, a large lake of European Russia, in the government of Olonetz, to the east of Ladoga. Its length is about 130 miles, its breadth,

from seventy to eighty. It contains several islands, of which the basis is marble: its waters are beautifully clear, and abound in fish. The Svir, a navigable stream, joins these lakes; and as the smaller lake of Bielo, situated to the south, and in the direction of the Wolga, is at the distance of only twenty-five miles, it has been proposed to join these by a canal.

ONEGA, a river of the north of European Russia, which rises to the east of Onega, and, flowing northward, falls into the White Sea, in a gulf of this name.

ONEGLIA, a province of Piedmont, which, until 1566, formed a distinct principality belonging to the house of Doria; but is now transferred to Sardinia. Its principal productions are olive-oil and fruit. It contains, on a surface of 100 square miles, one town, fifty-one villages, and nearly 29,000 inhabitants.

ONEGLIA, a town in the north of Italy, the capital of the Piedmontese province of this name, situated on the sea coast, at the mouth of the river Impero. It has a small harbour, a population of 5000, and a traffic in wine, fruit, and olive-oil. It is partly fortified, and contains some fine churches and a gymnasium. Here the celebrated Andrew Doria was born. It is thirty-six miles E. N. E. of Nice.

ONEIDA, a county of New York, bounded north by Lewis county, east by Herkimer county, and south-west by Madison county, and west by Oswego county. Population 33,792. Chief towns, Whitesborough, Utica, and Rome.

ONEIDA, a lake, chiefly in Oneida county, is twenty miles long and four broad. It receives Wood Creek on the east end, and communicates with Lake Ontario by the Oswego. It is a very beautiful lake, abounding in fish.

ONEIDA CREEK, a river of New York, which runs north into the east end of Oneida Lake. Length twenty-five miles.

ονειροκριτικός.

for the romantic and exaggerated anecdotes it contains. Plut. in Alex. Q. Curt. ix. 10.

ONESIMUS, a Macedonian nobleman and historian, who flourished at Rome in the third century, and was patrorised by the reigning emperors. He wrote the lives of the emperors Probus and Carus with great elegance and accuracy.

ONGLEE, in, heraldry, an appellation given to beasts or birds when the talons or claws are borne of a different color from that of the body of the animal.

ONGOLE, a district and town, in the Northern Carnatic, situated between 15° and. 16° of N. lat. The district was formerly dependent on the Kirpa or Cudapah principality; but was afterwards incorporated with the Carnatic below the Ghauts, and subject to Arcot. The sovereignty was finally acquired by the East India Company in 1801, by treaty with the nabob; and with Neloor, and now forms one of the collectorships, into which the Carnatic has been subdivided. It is of inferior fertility to Tanjore, and has never been remarkable for trade or manufactures. The Mussy and the Gondegamma are the principal rivers. The chief towns are Ongole, Courchier, and Sintalsheroo. The town, formerly fortified, is 173 miles north by west from Madras.

ONIÆ OPPIDUM, and ONIÆ TEMPLUM, a town and temple, so called from Onias, the high-priest of the Jews in Egypt; who built a temple in imitation of that at Jerusalem, by permission of the king of Egypt, on the spot where stood the temple of Diana Aretis in Leontopolis; it was encompassed with a brick wall, and had a large tower like that at Jerusalem. (Josephus). It was the metropolis of the Nomos Hesiopositis (Ptolemy), because in Strabo's time Heliopolis was fallen to decay.

ONION, n. s. Fr. oignon; (Lat. unio?) A 'well known bulbous plant.

If the boy have not a woman's gift
To rain a shower of commanded tears,
An onion will do well.

I, an ass, am onion-eyed.
This is every cook's opinion,

Shakspeare. Id

No savory dish without an onion;
But, lest your kissing should be spoiled,
Your onions must be thoroughly boiled.

Swift.

Of the second division, or the onion kind, the characters, &c., the species are these, 1st. Cepa, or common onion, the best garden varieties of which are the Strasburgh or common round onion, the oval long keeping common onion, the Spanish large flat onion, &c. Dr. A. Rees.

ONION. See ALLIUM. Onions, leeks, and garlic, are all of the same genus; and in their recent state are acrid, but harmless to the human body. When, by age or climate, this acrimony is too great, they are not used as food. In Spain the garlic, being equally mild with the onion, is used as common food. By the ordinary culinary preparation their acrimony is dissipated, and a remarkably mild substance remains, affording much nutriment. They are used in medicine, uniting the two qualities of pectorals, viz. by their acrimony, being in their recent state expectorant; in their boiled state, on account of their

mucilage, demulcent, provided the quantity taken be sufficient. Some have found in leeks a somniferous quality; and onions are undoubtedly possessed of this property, as any person may be satisfied, by eating one or two, when wakeful in the night. Besides the three species above mentioned, there are several others belonging to the same tribe, which we use as condiment; but only the leek and onion as diet. In its recent state the onion is the most acrid; in its boiled state the leek retains its acrimony most tenaciously. On account of this, and some difference of texture, the onion is more easily digested and more universally used than the leek; being more easily broken down, and more generally agreeable.

ONION RIVER, a river of Vermont, which is formed in Cabot, passes by Montpelier, and runs west into lake Champlain, four miles northwest of Burlington, North America. It is one of the principal rivers of Vermont, and flows through a fertile country. Between Colchester and Burlington it has worn through a solid rock of lime stone, forming a chasm seventy or eighty feet deep, and at Bolton there is another similar chasm. Length seventy miles.

OMISCUS, in zoology, a genus of insects beonging to the order of aptera. It has fourteen legs, bristly feelers, and an oval body. The most remarkable species are these :—

1. O aquaticus, of an ashen color, and tolerably smooth. Its body is composed of seven articulations, exclusive of the head and tail; which last part is much larger than the other segments, round at the extremity, from which issue two appendices, each divided into two threads. It has seven legs on each side; the last of which gradually increase in length, and are constantly larger than the foremost. The antennæ have but three long articulations, the last of which is much longer than the rest. This insect is found in pools, small rivulets, and especially in springs. 2. O. armadillo is broad, very glossy, and smooth; its color is black, with a small portion of white on the edge of the segment, which color often varies; but still the insect is glossy and smooth. Its body is composed of ten segments, besides the head and tail. Of the ten segments, the first seven are broad, and the last three short. The first of these three appears divided in the middle, which is broader than the rest, into three more. These last short segments, with that of the tail, form the extremity of the body, which is round, without any appendix, and constitutes the specific character of this insect. It has fourteen feet, seven on each side. When touched, it rolls itself up into a ball, bringing its head and tail together like the armadillo, and neither antennæ nor feet are seen: it might be taken for a round shining pearl. It is found in woods.

3. O. asellus, millepes, or wood-louse, is oval; the tail obtuse, with two undivided bristles; various as to color; length, five lines.

4. O entomon, the sea wood-louse, is white; eyes black; convex above, beneath flat, margin acute; antennæ four; four hind pair of legs largest, hairy. Body of ten segments. Length one line and a half. Found on the coast. It accoinpanies the herring, and is an enemy well known

to our fishermen: these insects will frequently eat up a whole fish while it hangs in the net.

ONKELOS, surnamed the Proselyte, a famous rabbi of the first century, and the author of the Chaldee Targum on the Pentateuch. He flourished in the time of Jesus Christ, according to the Jewish writers. The Talmudists tell us that he assisted at the funeral of Gamaliel, and was at a very large expense to make it magnificent.

ONLY, adj. & adv. From one. Single; sole; this, emphatically: one-like; simply; singly; merely; so and no otherwise.

Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis, vi. 5. The only child of shadeful Savernake. Drayton. The posterity of the wicked inherit the fruit of their father's vices; and that not only by a just judgment, but from the natural course of things. Tillotson.

All who deserve his love, he makes his own; And, to be loved himself, needs only to be known. Dryden.

This only man was worth the conquering.
Of all whom fortune to my sword did bring,

Id.

The logick now in use has long possessed the chair, as the only art taught in the schools for the direction of the mind in the study of the sciences. Locke.

I propose my thoughts only as conjectures. Burnet. Nor must this contrition be exercised by us only for grosser evils; but when we live the best. Wake. To maintain a character then with decency, we must keep our eye only upon that which is proper to it.

Can you resolve on shame? that only ill The generous fear that kills the soul itself.

Mason.

Thom on.

By numbers here from shame or censure free, All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues; This, only this, provokes the snarling muse.

Johnso.

Destinies were superstitiously, by onomancy, deciphered out of names, as though the names and natures of men were suitable, and fatal necessities concurred herein with voluntary motion. Camden.

Theodatus, when curious to know the success of his wars against the Romans, an onomantical or namewisard Jew, willed him to shut up a number of swine, and give some of them Roman names, others Gothic names with several marks, and there to leave them. Camden.

ONOMANCY, ONOMANTIA, or ONOMANCIA, a branch of divination, which foretels the good or bad fortune of a man from the letters in his name. From the same principle the young Romans drank to their mistresses as often as

there were letters in their names: hence Martial says, Naevia sex cyathis, septem Justina bibatur.

ONON, a river of Asiatic Russia, on the frontier of Chinese Tartary. It rises in a mountainous country, and flows north-east till, combined with the Ingoda, it forms the Chilka, which afterwards discharges itself into the Amour. Its waters abound in fish, and throw on shore fragments of cornelian, chalcedony, and jasper. The banks are chiefly occupied by tribes of wandering Bannats, Tunguses, &c.

ONONDAGA, a county of New York, bounded north by Oswego county, east by Madison county, south by Courtland county, and west by Cayuga county. Population 25,987. ONONDAGA, a post town, the capital of Onondaga county, New York, fifty miles west of Utica, 145 west of Albany. It is a large, valuable, and flourishing town, and has two villages, Onondaga Hollow, and West Hill. The latter, which is two miles west of the former, contains a court house, a jail, printing-office, &c. Onondaga Hollow contains a state arsenal, an academy, a meeting-house, a printing-office, and considerable manufactures. 200 of the Onondaga Indians live three miles south of this village; 200 of the same tribe reside on Buffalo Creek, 100 on the Alleghany, and 100 on the Ouse, in Upper Canada.

ONONDAGA, or Salt Lake, a lake in Onondaga county; seven miles north of Onondaga; seven miles long, and two broad. It discharges its waters from the north end into Seneca River On its borders are celebrated salt springs.

ONONIS, in botany, a genus of the decandria order, belonging to the diadelphia class of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the thirty-second order, papilionacea. The calyx is quinquepartite, with the segments linear; the vexillum striated; the legumen turgid and sessile; the filaments coalited without a fissure. ONOPORDUM, woolly thistle, in botany, a genus of the polygamia æqualis order, belonging to the syngenesia class of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the forty-ninth order, compositæ. The receptacle is honeycombed; the scales of the calyx mucronated or pointed.

ONORE, or HONAVUR, a sea-port of North Canara, Hindostan, standing at the mouth of a small river which communicates with a fine salt water lake. This lake extends nearly as far to the east as the foot of the mountains, and is studded with islands. The fish are salted by the natives, and form a considerable article of trade. The country also produces much pepper and rice. Ships may anchor to the south of Fortified Island, at the distance of one mile and a half, or two miles, from the shore, in five or six fathoms water. Onore, when the Portuguese first arrived in India, was the seat of an independent rajah, whom they subdued, and built a fortress here. It was subsequently taken from them by the Dutch, who relinquished it; for in 1763 it was taken by Hyder Aly, and then considered one of the possessions of the ranee of Bednore. Hyder caused docks to be erected here for the purpose of building ships of war;

but in the year 1768 it was taken by the British, and the buildings destroyed; shortly after which it was retaken by Hyder. In 1783 it was retaken by the British under general Matthews, who found five ships of war, and a number of small vessels: but it was restored to Tippoo on the conclusion of the peace. The sultan, convinced of the impracticability of forming a marine at that place, withdrew the artificers, and, with the province of Canara, it came into British possession in 1799.

ONOSANDER, a Greek author and Platonic philosopher, who wrote Commentaries on Plato's politics, which are lost; but particularly famous for a treatise entitled Aoyos Σrparnyшos, Of the Duty and Virtues of the General of an Army;' which has been translated into Italian, Spanish, and French. The time when he lived is not precisely known; but is imagined to have been in the reign of Claudius I.

ONOSMA, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the pentandria class of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the forty-first order, asperifolia. The corolla is campanulated, with the throat pervious; there are four seeds. A set

ON'SET, n. s. & v. a. On and set. on; attack; assault; first brunt: to assault. As well the soldier dieth, which standeth still, as he that gives the bravest onset. Sidney.

All breathless, weary, faint,
Him spying, with fresh onset he assailed,
And kindling new his courage, seeming queint,
Struck him so hugely, that through great restraint.
He made him stoop.
Spenser.

I will with deeds requite thy gentleness;
And for an onset, Titus, to advance
Thy name and honourable family,
Lavinia will I make my empress.

Shakspeare.

The first impetuous onsets of his grief;
Use every artifice to keep him stedfast.
Philips.
ON'SLAUGHT, n. s. On and slay. See
SLAUGHTER. Attack; storm; onset. Not in use.
They made a halt

To view the ground, and where t' assault,
Then called a council, which was best,
By siege or onslaught to invest
The enemy; and 'twas agreed

By storm and onslaught to proceed. Hudibras. ONSLOW, a county, south part of North Carolina, on the coast. Population 6669.

Slaves 2299. Chief town Swansborough. ONTARIO, LAKE, one of that great northern chain which divides the United States from

Upper Canada. In length it is 171 miles, its greatest breadth fifty-nine and a half, and it is 467 in circumference; the depth of water varies, but it is seldom less than three, or more than fifty fathoms, except in the middle, where attempts have been made with 300 fathoms, without striking. Its bearing is nearly east and west. Towards the south and in the north-east the shores are low and marshy; to the north and north-west they assume a lofty character. The country around is covered with wood, except where patches of settlements diversify the scene. Of the many rivers flowing into Lake Ontario there are none that lay claim to notice but the Genesee and Oswego: but there are some fine bays and inlets. Burlington Bay is both spacious and secure; but its entrance is narrow, and so shallow as to admit nothing larger than boats. Hungry Bay, on the contrary, affords good anchorage and safe shelter among the islands, to ships of the largest size. York and Kingston harbours, belonging to the English, and Sacket's harbour to the Americans, are unquestionably the best upon the lake. The two latter are strongly fortified. Very heavy squalls of wind occur here, but they are unattended either with difficulty or danger. Of the many islands at the east end the Grand Isle, which lies immediately at the outlet of the lake into the St. Lawrence, is the most considerable: and, below this, the islands are so numerous in the channel of the St. Lawrence that they have received the appellation of the Thousand Isles. The Ontario lake discharges its waters into the St. Lawrence from the north-east end, and communicates with Lake Erie at the south-west part, by the Niagara. Long. 76° 30′ to 80° W., lat. 43° 15′ to 44 N.

ONTARIO, a county of New York, bounded north by the above lake, east by Seneca county, south by Steuben and Alleghany counties, and west by Genesee county. Canadoqua is the capital. Also a county of Upper Canada, consisting of islands in lake Ontario.

ONTIGOLA, a well-built village of Spain, three miles east of Aranjuez, on a small lake of the same name. The foreign envoys reside here, when the court is at Aranjuez.

ONTINIENTE, a considerable manufacturing town of Valencia, Spain, is situated in a mountainous and fertile neighbourhood. It is an inland place, twelve miles south-west of the town of San Felippe; than which, though nearly as populous, as it contains about 11,000 inhabitants, it is much less known, from being unfortified and distant from any sea-port. Its inhabitants carry on manufactures of woollen, paper, and copper. The variety of temperature gives rise to a considerable diversity in the fruits, the lower grounds producing figs; the higher pears, apples, and other products of a colder climate.

ONTOLOGY, n. s. Į Gr. Ovroloуia. The ONTOLOGIST. science of the general affections of being. METAPHYSICS, which see. The modes, accidents, and relations that belong to various beings, are copiously treated of in metaphysicks, or more properly ontology. Watts's Logick.

Others, with more propriety, conceive metaphysics

to be what some others call ontology, or ontosophy, i. e. the doctrine de ente, or of being, quatenus being. Dr. A. Rees.

ONUPHRIUS PANVINUS, a learned Italian, of the order of hermits of St. Augustine. He was born of a noble family at Verona in 1529; and became so indefatigable in his studies that he spent whole days and nights in reading the ancients; which made Manutius style him Helluo Antiquitatis. His first performance was A Chronicle of Popes and Cardinals, which was printed without his. knowledge at Venice in 1557, and some time after more correctly by himself. He afterwards continued Platina's Lives of the Popes, from Sextus IV. to Pius V., and subjoined annotations. He also wrote four pieces upon Roman Antiquities, which are printed in Grævius's Collection.. He died in his thirty-ninth year in 1568. ON'YCHA, n. s. Gr. ονυχα. A fragrant gum. See below.

Take sweet spices, onycha, and galbanum. Exodus. ONYCOMANCY, or ONYMANCY, a kind of divination by the nails of the fingers. The word is from the Greek ovv, nail, and μavrea, divination. The ancient practice was to rub the nails of a youth with oil and soot, or wax; and to hold up the nails thus smeared against the sun. Upon them were supposed to appear figures or characters which showed the thing required.

O'NYX, n s. Gr. ovv. A gum. See below.
Nor are her rare endowments to be sold
For glittering sand by Ophir shown,
The blue-eyed saphir, or rich onyx stone.
Sandys.

The onyx is an accidental variety of the agate kind: it is of a dark horny colour, in which is a plate of a bluish white, and sometimes of red when on one or both sides the white there happens to lie also a plate of a reddish or fresh colour, the jewellers call the stone a sardonyx.

Woodward on Fossils.

1.

ONYX, in lithology, one of the semipellucid gems, with variously colored zones, but none red. There are four varieties of this gem. A bluish white one, with broad white zones: 2. A very pure onyx, with snow-white veins : 3. The jasponyx, or horny onyx, with green zones: 4. The brown onyx, with bluish white zones. The ancients attributed wonderful properties to the onyx, and imagined that if worn on the finger it acted as a cardiac; they also recommended it as an astringent; but at present no regard is paid to it. The word out signifies nail; the poets feigning this stone to have been formed by the Parca from a piece of Venus's nail, cut off by Cupid with one of his arrows.

ONYX, in ichthyology, or the onyx fish, found in the Red Sea, and has the property of being uncommonly odoriferous, whence it is a principal ingredient in the Indian perfumes. We have met with no description of it.

OOCHINADROOG, UJAYINI DURGA, a strong hill fort in the Balaghaut territories, district of Harponully. Lat. 14° 32′ N., long. 75° This fortress is situated about twelve 55' E miles to the eastward of Hurryhur, and has the appearance of great strength; being of consider