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Burdensome; oppressive. "Too onerous a solicitude." I. Taylor. Onerous cause (Scots Law), a good and legal consideration; -- opposed to gratuitous.

In an onerous manner.

Once. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one. Commonly writen as two words, one's self. One's self (or more properly oneself), is quite a modern form. In Elizabethan English we find a man's self=one's self. Morris.

Scarcely. See Unnethe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act of going forward; progress; (pl.) affairs; business; current events. The common ongoings of this our commonplace world, and everyday life. Prof. Wilson.

An unguent.

A liliaceous plant of the genus Allium (A.cepa), having a strong-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the genus. Onion fish (Zoöl.), the grenadier. -- Onion fly (Zoöl.) a dipterous insect whose larva feeds upon the…

A kind of thin translucent paper with a glossy finish.

See Oneirocritic.

The state of being alone. [Obs.]

Aloft; above ground. [Obs.] She kept her father's life onloft. Chaucer.

One alone; single; as, the only man present; his only occupation.

A white crystalline waxy substance extracted from the root of the leguminous plant Ononis spinosa.

Foolish discourse. [R.]

Divination by the letters of a name; nomancy. [R.] Camden.

Of or pertaining to onomancy. [R.]

Applied to a signature when the body of the instrument is in another's handwriting. Burrill.

A collection of names and terms; a dictionary; specif., a collection of Greek names, with explanatory notes, made by Julius Pollux about A.D.180.

Prognostication by the letters of a name.