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One versed in the history of names. Southey.

The science of names or of their classification.

An imitative word; an onomatopoetic word.

The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire.

Onomatopoetic. Whitney.

Of or pertaining to onomatopoeia; characterized by onomatopoeia; imitative; as, an onomatopoetic writer or word. Earle.

Onomatopoeia.

See Onomancy.

now a part of the State of New York. They were the central or head tribe of the Five Nations.

A rushing onward.

A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army. Milton. The onset and retire Of both your armies. Shak. Who on that day the word of onset gave. Wordsworth.

An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault. By storm and onslaught to proceed. Hudibras.

A single farmhouse; a steading. [Prov.Eng. & Scot.] Grose. Jamieson.

On the top of; upon; on. See On to, under On, prep.

The history of the individual development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from phylogeny, or evolution of the tribe. Called also henogenesis, henogeny.

Of or pertaining to ontogenesis; as, ontogenetic phenomena. -- On`to*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

Ontogenetic.

Ontological.

Of or pertaining to ontology.

In an ontological manner.