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the proportions exa£l, the colouring tolerable; and ano¬ 
ther thing to make all thefe graceful. Dryden. —Suppofe 
the common depth of the fea, taking one place with ano¬ 
ther, to be about a quarter of a mile. Burnet. —It is one 
thing to think right, and another thing to know the 
right way to lay our thoughts before others with advan¬ 
tage and clearnefs. Loche. —Two bones rubbed hard 
againft one another, or with a file, produce a fetid fmell. 
Arbuthnot on Aliments. —One of two, oppofed to the other. 
Afk from the one fide of heaven unto the other, whether 
there hath been any fuch thing as this. Dcui. iv. 32.— 
Both the matter of the ftone and marcafite had been 
at once fluid bodies, till one of them, probably the mar¬ 
cafite, firft growing hard, the other, as being yet of a 
more yielding confiftence, accommodated itfelf to the 
harder’s figure. Boyle. —Not many; the fame.—The 
church is therefore one, though the members maybe many; 
becaufe they all agree in one faith. There is one Lord 
and one faith, and that truth once delivered to the faints, 
which whofoever (hall receive, embrace, and profefs, muft 
neceflarily be accounted one in reference to that profeffion : 
for, if a company of believers become a church by be¬ 
lieving, they mufl: alfo become one church by believing 
one truth. Pearfon. —Particularly one : 
One day, in turning fome uncultur’d ground, 
In hopes a free-ftone quarry might be found, 
His mattock met refinance, and behold 
A cafket burft, with diamonds fill’d and gold. Harte. 
Some future : 
Heaven waxeth old, and all the fpheres above 
Shall one day faint, and their fwift motion ftay; 
And time itfelf in time (hall ceafe to move ; 
Only the foul furvives, and lives for aye. Dames. 
ON'E, f. [There are many ufes of the word one, which 
ferve to denominate it a fubllantive, though fome of them 
may feein rather to make it a pronoun relative, and fome 
may perhaps be confidered as confident with the nature of 
an adjedlive, the fubftantive being underftood.] A fingle 
perfon.—Although the beauties, riches, honours, fci- 
ences, virtues, and perfections, of all men, were in the 
prefent pofleffion of one, yet fomewhat beyond and above 
all this there would ftill be fought and earneftly thirfted 
for. Hooker. 
If one muft be rejefted, one fucceed, _ 
Make him my lord, within whofe faithful bread 
Is fix’d my image, and who loves me bed. Dryden. 
Sometimes with a.— Not a one fhakes his tail, but I figh 
out a paffion. Albumazar. 
There’s not a one of them, but in his houfe 
I keep a fervant feed. Shahefpeare''s Macbeth. 
A fingle mafs or aggregate.—It is one thing only as a heap 
is one. Blackmore. —The firft hour : 
Till it is one o’clock, cur dance of cuftora 
Let us not forget. Shahefpcare's M. Wives. 
The fame thing.—To be in the underftanding, and not to 
be underftood,Is all one as to fay any thing is, and is not, 
in the underftanding. Loche. 
I anfwer’d not again ; 
But that’s all one. Shahef/mare. 
A perfon, indefinitely and loofe.-—A good acquaintance 
with method will greatly affift every one in ranging hu¬ 
man affairs. Walts's Logic.—A perfon, by way of emi¬ 
nence : 
My father, king of Spain, was reckon’d one 
The wifeft prince that ever there had reign’d. Shahefpeare. 
A diftinCt or particular perfon.—That man fhould be the 
teacher, is no part of the matter ; for birds will learn one 
by another. Bacon's Nat. Hijl.— Perfons united : 
As I have made ye one, lords, one remain : 
So I grow ftronger, you more honour gain, Shahefpeare. 
Concord ; agreeement; one mind.—The king was well 
inftrufted how to carry himfelf between Ferdinando and 
Philip, refolving to keep them at one within themfelves. 
Bacon's Hen. VII.—He is not at one with himfelf what 
account to give of it. Tillntfon. —A perfon of particular 
character.—Edward I. was one who very well knew how 
to ufe a victory, as well as obtain it. Hale. 
Then muft you fpeak 
Of one that lov’d not wifely, but too well ; 
Of one not eafily jealous ; but, being wrought, 
Perplex’d in the extreme. Shahefpeare's Othello. 
One has fometimes a plural, either when it Hands for 
perfons indefinitely; as, The great ones of the world : or 
when it relates to fome thing going before, and is only 
the reprefentative of the antecedent noun. This relative 
mode of fpeech, whether Angular or plural, is not 
very elegant, yet is ufed by good authors. — Be not 
found here; hence with your little ones. Shahefpeare .— 
He that will overlook the true reafon of a thing .which 
is but one, may eafily find many falfe ones, error being 
infinite. Tillotfon.- —The following plain rules and direc¬ 
tions are not the lefs ufeful becaufe they are plain ones. 
Atterbnry. —Arbitrary power tends to make a man a bad 
fovereign, who might poftibly have been a good one, had 
he been inverted with an authority limited by law. Addi- 
fon's Freeholder. 
One another, is a mode of fpeech very frequent; as, 
They love one another; that is, one of them loves another: 
The ftorm beats the trees againft one another ; that is, one 
againft another.—In democratical governments, war did 
commonly unite the minds of men ; when they had ene¬ 
mies abroad, they did not contend with one another at 
home. Davcnant. 
ON'E, pron. [on, I'on, Fr. It is ufed fometimes as a ge¬ 
neral or indefinite nominative for any man, any perlon. 
For one the Englifh formerly ufed men ; as, They live ob- 
fcurely, men know not how ; or die obfeurely, men mark 
not when. Afcham. For which it would now be faid, 
cue knows not how, one knows not when; or, it is not 
known how.] Any perfon ; any man indefinitely.—It is 
not fo worthy to be brought to heroical effieCts by fortune 
or necefiity, like Ulyffes and Aineas, as by one's own 
choice and working. Sidney. —For fome time one was not 
thought to underftand Ariftotle, unlefs he had read him 
with Averroe’s comment. Baker. 
ON'E-BERRY, f. in botany. See Paris. 
ON'E-BLADE. See Convallaria. 
ON'E-EYED, adj. Having only one eye : 
A fign-poft dauber would difdain to paint 
The one-ey'd hero on his elephant. Dryden. 
ONEEHEO'W, one of the Sandwich iflands, in the 
North Pacific Ocean, lying five leagues to the weftward of 
Atooi, and not above fifteen leagues in circuit. The eaft- 
ern coaft is high, and rifes abruptly from the fea ; but the 
reft of the ifland confifts of low ground, excepting a 
round bluff head in the fouth-eaft point, which termi¬ 
nates in a round hill. It produces abundance of yams, 
and of the fweet root called tec. Here is fait, which the 
natives call patai, produced in falt-ponds : with this they 
cure both fifli and pork ; and their falt-fifh kept very well, 
and was found to be very good. When captain Cook 
vifited this ifland in January 1778, fix or feven canoes 
came off with fome fmall pigs and potatoes, and a good 
many yams and mats. The people refembled thole of 
Atooi; and feemed to be equally acquainted with the ufe 
of iron, which they afked for by the names of hamaite and 
toe, parting readily with all their commodities for pieces 
of this precious metal. Many of them came readily on¬ 
board, crouching down upon the deck, and not quitting 
this humble pofture till they were defired to get up. The 
women, who were left in the canoes, behaved with much 
lefs tnodeftythan thofeof Atooi; and at times all of them 
joined in a fong, not remarkable for its melody, though 
performed 
