488 ONE 
A pretence as groundlefs and filly as the dreaming onciro- 
oriticks of Artemidorus and Aftrampfychus, or the mo¬ 
dern chiromancy and divinations of gipfies. Bentley's 
Sermons. 
ONEIROM'ANCY, f. [oirn^os and purvutx., Gr.] Divi¬ 
nation by dreams.—Thefe rude obfervations were at lall 
licked into an art, phyfical oneiromancy ; in which phyfi- 
cians, from a confideration of the dreams, proceeded to a 
crifis of the difpofition, of the perfon. Spenfer on Prod. 
1665. 
ONEIROF'OLIST, f. [from the Gr. ovsi^oj, and rruXioi, 
to fell.] An interpreter of dreams.—The interpreters of 
dreams, called oneiropolifts by the poets, give no opinion 
of any vifion till the exadl time of its appearance is af- 
certained to them. Berwick's Apollonius ofTyana. 
ONEIROS'COPIST, f. [from the Gr. oviigoc, a dream, 
and cry.oma, to view.] One that inquires into the mean¬ 
ing of dreams. 
ONEIROS'COPY, f. The fcience or ftudy of dreams. 
ONEKO'TAN, one of the Kurile Elands, in the North 
Pacific Ocean, about fixty miles in circumference. Lat. 
50. N. Ion. 155. 14. E. 
ON'EMACK PO'INT, the fbuth-weft point of the 
continent of North America, on the north-weft coaft, 
and the fouth limit of Briftol Bay: eighty-two leagues 
fouth-fouth-weft of Cape Newenham, on the north point 
of that extenfive bay. Lat. 54. 30. N. Ion. 163. 30. W, 
ONEMENSKA'IA, a lake of Rufiia, in the river Ana¬ 
dir, 208 miles below Anadirlkoi, communicating with 
the Gulf of Anadir. 
ON'EMENT, J'. [from owe.] State of being one; union. 
Not in ufe. 
Ye witlefs gallants, I befhrew your hearts, 
That fet fuch difcord ’twixt agreeing parts. 
Which never can be fet at onement more. Bp. Hall. 
ON'ENESS, J. Unity; the quality of being one.—Our 
God is one, or rather very onenefs and mere unity, having 
nothing but itfelf in itfelf, and not confifting, as all things 
do befides God, of many things. Hunker. 
ON'ERARY, adj. [ onerarius , Lat. oneraire, Fr.] Fitted 
for carriage or burthens ; comprifing a burthen. 
To ON'ERATE, v. a. [ unero , Lat.] To load ; to bur¬ 
then. 
ONERA'TION, f. The adt of loading. 
ONERO'SE, adj. [ onerofus , Lat.] Onerous ; burthen- 
fome. Scott. 
ONEROS'ITY, f. The ftate of being burthenfome. 
Bailey. 
ON'EROUS, adj. Burthenfome; oppreffive. — Over¬ 
come and tormented with worldly cares, and onerous bu- 
finels. Burton’s Anat. of Mel. 
ONEROUS CAU'SE. The Scotch phrafe for a good 
and legal confideration. See Assumpsit. 
ONE'SIFE THER'MAS, were, according to Strabo, 
excellent baths, and falutary waters, at the foot of the 
Pyrenees in Aquitania. Near the river Aturus, or Adour, 
Bands at this day the town Bagnercs en Bigorrc, famous 
for its waters, which appear to be the Onefia; of Strabo ; 
fituated in the department of the Higher Pyrenees. 
ONES'ILUS, foil of Cherlis, was beheaded by the peo¬ 
ple of Amathufa. They hung up his head at one of the 
gates of their city; after it had hung fome time, and the 
infide was wafted, a fwarm of bees got in and filled it 
with honey. The Amathufians hereupon confulted the 
oracle, which commanded them to facrifice yearly to 
Onefilus as a hero; the oracle was obeyed, and the cuftom 
was continued down to the days of Herodotus. Herodot. 
v. 114. 
ONES'IMUS, f. [Greek.] A man’s name. Phil. 10. 
ONES'IMUS, a Macedonian nobleman, treated with 
great kindnefs by the Roman emperors. He wrote an ac¬ 
count of the life of the emperor Probus, and of Carus; 
with great precifion and elegance. 
QNESIPH'QRUS, [Greek.] A native of Afia, perhaps 
O N G 
of Ephefus. There he was extremely kind to the apoftie 
Paul. Coming to Rome when Paul was in prifon, he 
fought him out, and to the utmoft of his power comforted 
and aftlfted him. Paul begs that the Lord would gracioufly 
reward him and his family at the laft day. 2 Tim. i. 16, 
17, 18. 
ON'ESON, a town of Nubia, on the left bank of the 
Nile F thirty miles north-eaft of Sennaar. 
ON'EVY, one of the fmaller Friendly iflands, in the 
South Pacific Ocean, near the north coaft of Tongataboo : 
five miles north-eaft of Obfervatory Point. 
O'NEY, a river of Herefordfliire, which runs into the 
Lug at Leominfter. 
ONEY'DA. See Oneida. 
ONEZ'SKOE, a lake of RufTia, in the government of 
Olonetz, 120 miles in length, and about 40 in its mean 
breadth: it contains feveral iflands. Lat. 61. to 63. N. 
Ion. 29. to 31. E. 
ONFZE'NI, a town of European Turkey, in Moldavia: 
thirty-one miles north-north-eaft of jafti. 
ONG-KIN', a town of Corea: fifty-eight miles fouth- 
vreft of Hoang. 
ONG-LA'KE, a river of Madagafcar, which runs into 
the Bay of St. Auguftine. 
ON'GAR, the name of two adjoining parifhes in Efiex, 
called Chipping Ongar and High Ongar. 
Chipping Ongar is an ancient market-town, feven 
miles and a half eaft-north-eaft from Epping, ten weft-by- 
fouth from Chelmsford, and twenty-one north-eaft from 
London. The town is fuppofed to be of great antiquity, 
and to have been of confiderable importance, firft under 
the Romans, and fubfequently under the Saxons and 
Normans. It is now only a trifling place, and confifts of 
one long and wide ftreet. The church, a fmall ltrudlure, 
is remarkable for the caftellated loop-hole appearance of 
its windows. Within the church is a monument in ho¬ 
nour of Jane, daughter of lord Oliver Cromwell, of Hin- 
chinbrooke, in Huntingdonfhire. The market, which is 
on Saturday, is not much ufed, though, from the term 
Chipping or Cheaping, affixed to the name of the town, 
it is probably of remote origin. There are two fairs every 
year ; Eafter Tuefday, and the nth of Odtober. Accord¬ 
ing to the parliamentary-returns of 1811, the whole pa- 
rifh contained 120 houfes, and 678 inhabitants. 
High Ongar is one mile and three quarters weft from 
Chipping Ongar. It was the manor of Richard Lacy, 
who, being chief-juftice of England while Henry II. was 
in Normandy, built the church. Pie alfo built a caftle, 
which was fituated on the top of an artificial mount, anil 
furrounded by a large moat; but this caftle, growing 
ruinous, was taken down in the reign of queen Elizabeth, 
and a brick ftru 61 ure eredled on its fite. This was cle- 
molifhed in 1745, by Edward Alexander, efq. who eredted, 
infteadofit, a handfome fummer-houfe, furrounded by a 
moat, and afeended by a fteep winding walk, arched over, 
the greateft part of the way, by trees and flirubs. From 
the top is a beautiful profpedh 
Near Ongar is Kelvedon Hall, the feat of John Wright, 
efq. and Mylefs, the feat of the late John Luther, efq. 
who left it to Francis Fane, efq. It is now in the occu¬ 
pation of Duncan Davidfon, e!q. Mr. Luther had been 
thepupil of Dr. Watlon biftiop of Landaff, and bequeathed 
him a handfome fum of money at his death. 
About a mile from Ongar ftands the village of Green- 
fted, which particularly deferves notice on account of its 
church, which is regarded by antiquaries as one of the 
moft ancient and curious fpecimens of architedture in our 
ifland. The nave is entirely compofed of the trunks of 
oak-trees, fplit or fawn afunder, and fixed upright in a 
fill and plate clofe to each other. On the fouth fide are 
fixteen, and two door-pofts; on the north twenty-one, 
and two vacancies, filled-up with plafter. The weft end 
is built-againft by a bo'arded tower, and the eaft by a 
chancel of brick ; on the fouth fide is a wooden porch ; 
and both fides are ftrengthened by thick buttrefles. The 
a roof 
