ONO 
n. A concerto on the violin was likewife introduced, 
where hand and fire were difcovered by the player, but no 
tafte or feeli 
We were admitted i into the interior of a confervatorio 
e rooms where 
was apeiry to burft; on the fecon ch horn 
bellowing in the fame manner. ommon practifing 
room there was a hig concert, confifting of feven o 
eight harpfichords, m re than as many violins a feveral 
voices, all perfo ommee different ching, — in differe 
other bo ; but it being 
and continued diffonance, it is wholly arsed to give any 
kind of polifh or finifhing to their perform ange i ; hence the 
flovenly pan sel : remarkable in their ae exhibitions ; 
and the total want of tafte, neatnefs, ‘and expreffion in all 
thefe young caine till they have acquired them elfe- 
e. 
‘The beds, which are in the fame room, ferve for feats to 
Out . thirty or 
pr actifing, we could difcover but tw 
who were playing the fame piece. The vio pisaeliss praétife 
the — hautbois, and other wind 
d, pt the trumpets and, horns, 
which are shige to fg ‘ithe on the ftairs, or on the top 
of the houfe 
th ife, 
sal sei till ae o selock at eee 3 and this conftant per- 
feverance, for a number of years, with genius and good 
ANCcY, the a 
ining the good or es alia which fhall befall a ie 
from the letters of his n 
ie word is fe fuppofed o be formed from the Greek 
oP heater Indeed, there is fome- 
Onomantia was a very popular and reputable praétice 
among the ancients. The Pythagoreans taught, that the 
minds, actions, and fucceffes of men, were according to 
their fate, genius, and name; has Plato himfelf feems fome- 
what inclinable to the fame opinion. 
aed Heder, the numeral letters in the former name 
amounting to a greater number than the latter 
nd it was, doubtlefs, from a principle “much o 
fame kind, that the young Romans toafted their miftrefies 
f£ Onondago lake. 
ONO 
at their sinh as often as there were letters in ial names 
Thus Mart 
‘ Nevis fex cyathis, feptem Juftina bibatur.”” 
ONOMATOPGIA, 
formed from oropn, name, and 
Rhetoric, a figure of 
whereby names and words are formed to the refem- 
blance of the found made by the thing fignified. 
hus in the word trique-trac, formed from the noife made 
by moving the men at this game: and from the fame fource 
arife the buz of bees, the grunting of hogs, the cackling of 
hens, brs Sariig 3 ‘of people afleep, the clafhing of arms, &c. 
reft etymologies are thofe deduced from the ona- 
ae 
ONONDAGO, or Sart Lake, in Geography, a lake of 
merica, in New York, about fix miles long and one broad, 
which difcharges its waters to Seneca river. 
faitnefs from faline {p prings, a a few miles from it 
furnifhes immenfe quantities of falt to the great Benen of 
the country. 
OnonpvAGo, a river of New York, which rifes in the 
Oneida lake, and runs weftward into lake Ontario at Of- 
wego. It is paffable by boats from its mouth to the head 
of the lake, 74 miles, except the interval of a fall which is 
mile of this river 
there is say of falmon.—Alfo, a county - New York, 
confifting of deed lands, divided into nine townfhips : 
this county is boun 
la 
. by 
ke Ontario, the O atees river and Oneida lake. The 
unty courts are held in the villa f Aurora, in the 
townfhip of nondago county is well adapted to 
e 
The inhabitants are 7406.—Alfo, a pott 
ief town of the Six Nations fituated in 
and fertile part of the country, on d 
of ‘the fame name, and confifted of five {mall towns 
villages. 
ONONDAGOES, a tribe of a who ray nea 
Between 20 or 
furnifh 260 warriors. 
perfons, receives annually from the itate of New Yor 
dollars, and from the United States about 450 dollars, N.. 
lat. 42° 58’. W. long 75° 4o!. 
ONONGHOUAGO, a town of America, in New 
York, feated on the Su{quehanna ; 13 miles E. of Chenango. 
VIS, in Botany, an ancient Greek name, occurring 
both in the works of Theophraftus and Diofcorides; but 
whether their Oywss is comprehended in the prefent lai 
we cannot confidently fay. At any rate their plant w 
fort of Vetch, and of the fame clafs and natural Gina? 
with the prefent Oxonis, and its name, derived from ovos, 
an afs, and el to delight, implies that it was grateful food 
to thofe animals.— 
Sp. Pl. v. 88. Mart. Mill. Did. v. 3. : 
9758 .Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. v. 3. 21. Thunb. Prodr. 129. 
Juff. Gen. 354. oo Dia. v. 1. 505. Illuftr. t. 616. 
Gertn.t.154. (Anonis; Tournef. t. 229.) afs and 
order, cara Decandria. Nat. Ord, Papilonacee, Linn. 
aa Sy Jul. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, almoft as long as the 
corolla ; ; ‘oven into five, linear fegments, flightly arched 
upwards ; the loweft under the ‘or. papilionaceous ; 
ftandard heart thee, ftriated, * deprefled at the fides more 
than 
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