One , v. t. To cause to become one; to gather into a single
whole; to unite; to assimilite.
[Obs.]
The rich folk that embraced and oned all their heart to treasure of the world.
Chaucer.
One (?), indef. pron. Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what
one would have well done, one should do one's self.
It was well worth one's while.
Hawthorne. Against this sort of
condemnation one
must steel one's self
as one best can.
G. Eliot. One is often used with some, any, no, each, every, such, a, many a, another, the other, etc. It is sometimes joined with another, to denote a reciprocal relation.
When any one heareth the word.
Matt. xiii.
19. She knew every one who was
any one in the land of Bohemia.
Compton Reade. The
Peloponnesians and the Athenians
fought against one another.
Jowett (Thucyd. ). The gentry received one another.
Thackeray.
One , n.
1. A single
unit; as, one is the
base of all
numbers.
2. A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i.
3.
A single person or thing. "The shining ones."
Bunyan. "Hence, with your little ones." Shak.
He will hate
the one, and love the
other.
Matt.
vi. 24. That we may sit,
one on thy right hand, and the
other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
Mark x. 37. After one, after one fashion; alike. [Obs.]
Chaucer. -- At one, in agreement or concord. See At one, in the
Vocab. -- Ever in one, continually; perpetually; always.
[Obs.] Chaucer. -- In one, in union; in a single whole. -- One and one, One by one, singly; one at a time; one after another. "Raising one by one
the suppliant crew." Dryden.
One (?), a. [OE. one, on, an, AS. än; akin to D. een, OS.
ën, OFries. ën, än, G. ein, Dan. een, Sw. en, Icel.
einn, Goth. ains, W.
un, Ir. & Gael. aon, L. unus,
earlier oinos, oenos, Gr. &?; the ace on dice;
cf. Skr. ëka. The same word as
the indefinite article a, an. √ 299. Cf. 2d A, 1st
An, Alone, Anon, Any, None, Nonce, Only, Onion, Unit.]
1. Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no
more; not multifold; single; individual.
The dream of
Pharaoh is one.
Gen. xli.
25. O that
we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in
England.
Shak. 2. Denoting
a person or
thing conceived or spoken of indefinitely; a certain. "I am
the sister of one Claudio"
[Shak.], that is, of a certain
man named Claudio.
3.
Pointing out a contrast, or denoting a particular thing or person different from some other specified; -- used as a correlative adjective,
with or without the.
From the one side of
heaven unto the other.
Deut.
iv. 32. 4. Closely
bound together; undivided; united;
constituting a whole.
The church is therefore one, though the members may be many.
Bp.
Pearson 5. Single
in kind; the
same; a common.
One plague was on you all, and on your lords.
1 Sam.
vi. 4. 6. Single;
inmarried. [Obs.]
Men may counsel a
woman to be
one.
Chaucer. &fist; One is often used in forming compound words, the meaning of which is obvious; as, one-armed, one-celled, one-eyed, one-handed, one-hearted, one- horned, one-idead, one-leaved, one-masted, one-ribbed, one-story, one-syllable, one- stringed, one-winged, etc.
All one, of the same or equal nature, or consequence; as, he says that
it is all
one what course you take. Shak. -- One
day. (a) On a certain
day, not definitely specified, referring to time past.
One day when Phoebe fair,
With all her
band, was following the chase.
Spenser. (b) Referring to future time: At some uncertain day or period; some day.
Well, I will marry one day.
Shak.
-one .(Chem.) A termination indicating that
the hydrocarbon to the name of which it is affixed belongs to the fourth series of hydrocarbons, or the third series of unsaturated
hydrocarbonsl as, nonone.
-one (?). [From Gr. -w`nh, signifying, female descendant.]
(Chem.) A suffix indicating that the substance, in the name of which it appears, is a ketone; as, acetone.
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