tain 53 towns and villages, 3000 families, 14,000 fouls, and 2000, men fit to bear arms. It abounds with fruits, vines, and olive trees, from which excellent wines and olive oil are made.

(2.) ONEGLIA, a valley and district in the above province, which abounds fo much in fruit trees, that it appears like one continued orchard.

(3.) ONEGLIA, a fea port of Italy, formerly belonging to the king of Sardinia, capital of the above principality and diftrict. It has often been taken and retaken in the wars of Italy, as it is an open place. The French and Spaniards had poffeffion of it in 1744, but were driven out by the Piedmontefe; however, they returned next winter, and again made themselves mafters of it. It was plundered and burnt by the French, on the 23d October 1792; the inhabitants having fired upon a flag of truce, fent by the French admiral under Capt. Duchayla, whereby he and feveral others were wounded, and fix Frenchmen killed. It was again taken by the French in April 1794; but being retaken by the Auftrians, was a third time taken by the French, in March 1799. Lon. 7.51. E. Lat. 43. 58. N.

(1.) ONEIDA, a lake of New York, about 25 miles long and 5 broad; fituated between Onondago, Oneida, and Herkemer counties. It receives the ONEIDA (N° 2.) from the N., Wood-Creek from the E. and several other fmaller rivers; and communicates with Lake Ontario on the W. by the Ofwego. The middle part of it lies in about Lon. 76° W. Lat. 43. 5. N.

(2.) ONEIDA, a river of New York, which runs into the above lake from the N.

(3.) ONEIDA, a county of New York, chiefly feated on the banks of the above lake, bounded N. by Herkemer, E. by Montgomery, SE. by Otfego, S. by Tyoga, and W. by Onondago counties. It is 50 miles long from E. to W. and 30 broad from N. to S. It is well watered by various rivers, and pleasantly variegated with hills; and the foil is generally fertile.

(4.) ONEIDA CASTLE, a fort of New York, on the Geneffee, 25 miles S. of Lake Ontario.

ONEIDAS, or ONEIDA INDIANS, one of the SIX NATIONS of N. American Indians, who in, habit the country S. of Lake Oneida, in the above County (N° 3). The number of their warriors, in 1795, was 250, and their total population 628. Their name is laid to be derived from their ancient Pagan deity, which a few of them ftill worfhip, called Oneida, which in their language fignifies the Upright Stone: and in fact this idol is nothing more than a rude, misshapen, cylindrical fone, of about 120 lb, weight, which formerly they used to place in the riotch of a tree, and then they thought themselves invincible. Thefe fuperftitions, however, are nearly extirpated, by the exertions of the Rev. Meffrs Kirkland and Sarjeant, who were fent, many years ago, as miffionaries, by the fociety in Scotland for promoting Chriftian knowledge, and have not been unfuccefsful. The Oneidas receive an annuity, for lands purchased of them in 1795, of 628 dollars from the United States, and of 3552 dollars from the State of New York. Kahnonwolohale is their capital.

ONEION, an ancient town of Arcadia.

ONEIREGMOS, nocturnal pollution. ONEIROCRITICA, the art of interpreting dreams, or foretelling future events by means of dreams. See DREAM, § 2-7. The word is formed from the Greek org, dream, and agiliun, of xgicis, judgment. Some call it ONEIROCRATICA; and derive it from overg☞ and xgariw, I poffefs, I command. It appears from various paffages of Scripture, that there was, under the Jewish difpenfation, such a thing as foretelling future events by dreams; but then there were particular gifts or revelations required for that purpose. See Gen. xxviii. 12. XXXVÏÏ. xl. xli. Dan. ii. iv. vii-xii. Matth. i. 20. Acts x. &c. But as a human art, it is doubtless as vain and chimerical as ASTROLOGY OF MAGIC.

* ONEIROCRITICAL. adj. [ovElgongilimos, Gr. oneirocritique, Fr. it should therefore, according to analogy, be written onirocritical and onirocritick.) Interpretative of dreams.-If a man has no mind to pafs by abruptly from his imagined to his real circumftances, he may employ himself in that new kind of obfervation which my oneirocritical correfpondent has directed him to make. Addif. Sped. ONEIROCRITICISM, n. Л. the art of interpreting dreams. See ONEIROCRITICA.

(1.)* ONEIROCRITICK. n. S. [overpompitixes, Gr.] An interpreter of dreams.-Having furveyed all ranks and profeffions, I do not find in any quarter of the town an oneirocritick, or an interpreter of dreams. Addifon's Spectator.

(2.) ONEIROCRITICS fignify also books written on dreams. There is no regard to be bad to thofe Greek books called oneirocritics. It is indeed surprising that the patriarch of Conftantinople, and others, fhould have written on fuch a fubject. Rigault has given a collection of the Greek and Latin works of this kind; one attributed to Aftrampfichus; another to Nicephorus, patriarch of Conftantinople; with the treatises of Artemidorus and Achmet.-But the books themfelves are mere reveries; a kind of waking dreams, to explain and account for fleeping ones. The fecret of ONEIROCRITICISM, according to them all, confifts in the relation fupposed to be between the dream and the thing fignified; but they are far from keeping to the relations of agreement and fimilitude, and frequently have recourfe to others of diffimilitude and contrariety. On this fubje&t, the unlearned reader will find much information in Warburton's Divine Legation of Mofes, and the books to which he refers.

ONEIRODYNIA, uneafinefs during sleep. See INCUBUS, MEDICINE, Index, NOCTAMBULO, and SLEEP-WALKER.

ONEIROGMOS, a venereal dream.

ONEIROSCOPIST, n. Л. [from ovipos, Gr. a dream, and exons, to view.] One who inquires into the meaning of dreams.

ONEKOTAN, one of the KURILE Isles. It is about 60 miles in circumference. Lon. 173° E. Ferro. Lat. 50o N.

ONEMACK, a cape of N. America, the SW. point of that continent on the NW. coaft, and the S. limit of Bristol Bay. Lon. 163. 30. W. Lat. 54. 30. N.

ONEMENSKAIA, a lake of Ruffia, in the ANADIR, which communicates with the Gulf of Anadir, 208 miles below ANADIRSKOI. * ONENESS.

ONENESS. n. /. [from one.] Unity; the quality of being one.-Our God is one, or rather very oneness and mere unity, having nothing but itself infitfelf, and not confifting, as all things do befides God, of many things. Hooker.-The oneness of our Lord Jefus Chrift, referring to the feveral hypoftafes, is the one eternal indivifible divine nature. Hammond.

*ONERARY. adj. [onerarius, Lat. oneraife, Fr.] Fitted for carriage or burthens; comprising a bur

then.

* To ONERATE. v. a. [onero, Lat.] To load; to burthen.

*ONERATION. n. f. [from onerate.] The act of loading. Dia.

*ONEROUS. adj. [onereux, Fr. onerofus, Lat.] Burthenfome; oppreffive.-A banished perfon, abfent out of neceffity, retains all things onerous to himself, as a punishment for his crime. Ayliffe.

ONESIE THERMÆ, were, according to Strabo, excellent baths, and falutary waters, at the foot of the Pyrenees in Aquitania. Near the river Adour, the ancient Aturus, ftands Bagnères, famous for its waters, which appear to be the Onefte of Strabo. See BAGNERES.

ONESICRITUS, a cynic philofopher and hiftorian of Egina, who accompanied Alexander the Great into Afia, and was fent by him to the Indian Gymnofophifts. He wrote a hiftory of Alexander's expedition, which has been cenfured for the romantic and exaggerated anecdotes it contains. Plut. in Alex. Q. Curt. ix. 10.

(1.) ONESIMUS, a Macedonian nobleman and hiftorian, who flourished at Rome in the 3d century, and was patronised by the reigning emperors. He wrote the lives of the emperors Probus and Carus with great elegance and accuracy.

(2.) ONESIMUS, a flave of Philemon, and an early convert of St Paul's. See PHILEMON, N° 2. ONESIPHORUS, another primitive Chriftian, who was kind to St Paul, when a prifoner at Rome. 2 Tim. i.°16—18.

ONEVY, one of the FRIENDLY ISLANDS. ONEY, a river of England, in Herefordshire, which runs into the Lug at Leominster. ONEZSKOE, a lake of Ruffia, in Olonetzkoi, 120 miles long, and 40 broad.

(1.) ONGAR, HIGH, two fmall towns of (2.) ONGAR PARK, Effex, NE. of Chipping Ongar.

ONG-KIN, a town of Corea, 58 miles SW. of Hoang.

ONGLEE, in heraldry, an appellation given to the talons or claws of beafts or birds, when borne of a different colour from that of the body of the animal.

ONGOLE, a town and diftrict of Indoftan, in the N. part of the Carnatic; 65 miles N. of Nellore, 90 NNE. of Cuddapa, and 829 SW. of Calcatta, feated on the bay of Bengal. Lon. 80. 5. E. Lat. 15. 30. N.

ONGO MANCAN, a town of Chinese Tartary. ONGS, a town of New Jerfey, 13 miles ESE. of Burlington. ONIE OPPIDUM, and a town and temple, ONIE TEMPLUM, to called from Onias, be high-prieft of the Jews in Egypt; who built

a temple in imitation of that at Jerusalem, by permiffion of the king of Egypt, on the spot where ftood the temple of Diana Agreftis in Leontopolis: it was encompaffed with a brick wall, and had a large tower like that at Jerufalem. (Jofephus.) It was the metropolis of the Nomos Heliopolitis (Ptolemy), becaufe in Strabo's time Heliopolis was fallen to decay.

ONIMAMOU, a port on the SE. coaft of Ulietea, one of the Society Islands.

(1.)* ONION. n. J. [oignon, Fr. cape.] A plant.
If the boy have not a woman's gift
To rain a fhower of commanded, tears,
An onion will do well. Shak. Taming the Shrew.
I an afs, am onion-ey'd. Shak. Ant. and Cleop.
This is ev'ry cook's opinion,

Swift.

No fav'ry difh without an onion! But left your kiffing fhould be spoil'd, Your onions must be th'roughly boil'd. (2.) ONION. See ALLIUM, N° 2. Onions, leeks, and garlic, are all of the fame genus; and in their recent ftate are acrid, but harmless to the human body. When, by age or climate, this acrimony is too great, they are not used as food. In Spain, the garlic, being equally mild with the onion, is ufed as common food. By the ordinary culinary preparation their acrimony is diffipated, and a remarkably mild fubftance remains, affording much nutriment. They are ufed in medicine, uniting the two qualities of pectorals, viz. by their acrimony, being in their recent ftate expectorant ; in their boiled ftate, on account of their mucilage, demulcent, provided the quantity taken be fuffi cient. Some have found in leeks a fomniferous quality; and onions are undoubtedly poffeffed of this property, as any perfon may be fatisfied, by eating one or two, when wakeful in the night. Befides the three species above mentioned, there are several others belonging to the fame tribe, which we ufe as condiment; but only the leek and onion as diet. In its recent ftate, the onion is the most acrid; in its boiled ftate, the leek retains its acrimony moft tenacioully. On account of this, and fome difference of texture, the onion is more eafily digefted and more universally used than the leek; being more easily broken down, and more generally agreeable.

(3.) ONION, in geography, a river of Vermont, formerly called French River, and by the Indians Winaufki. It rifes in Calot, 14 miles W. of the Connecticut, and is navigable by fmall veffels 5 miles above its mouth; where it falls into Lake Champlain, between Burlington and Colchefter. It has feveral beautiful cafcades.

(4.) ONION, CAPE, a cape on the SW. fide of Newfoundland, 12 miles W. of Quirpon island. (5.) ONION, SEA. See SCILLA.

ONJON, a town of France, in the dep. of Aube, and diftrict of Troyes; 10 m. NE. of Troyes.

ONISCUS, in zoology, à genus of infects be longing to the order of aptera. It has 14 legs, briftly feelers, and an oval body. See Pl. CCXLVI. There are 15 fpecies, and 2 new fpecies were difcovered by La Martiniere, the naturalift who accompanied Peroufe in his laft voyage. The moft comarkable are thefe:

1. ONISCUS AQUATICUS is of an afhen colour, Ppa and

cifely known: but is imagined to have been in the reign of Claudius I.

rifes from Lake. Oneida, and runs W. into Lake Ontario at Ofwego. It is navigable in boats from its mouth to the head of that lake for 74 miles except at one cataract, which occafions a land carriage of 20 yards. Salmon abound in this river.

(3.) ONONDAGO, an extenfive and fertile county of New York, 78 miles long from N. to S. and 59 broad from E. to W. It is bounded on the N. by lakes Ontario and Oneida, and by part of the Ofwego; E. by Oneida county; SE. and S. by Tyoga county, and W. by that of Ontario. It is interfected by the Seneca and Ofwego, and by 5 lakes. It comprehends 1,760,000 acres, which were granted by the legislature of New York to the officers and foldiers of the New York Line as a reward of their patriotifm during the American war. It is divided into 27 townships; of which 11 are mentioned under MILITARY TOWNSHIPS: the other 16 are named, Hannibal, Cato, Cicero, Galen, Brutus, Camillus, Junius, Cincinnatus, Sempronius, Tully, Fabius, Locke, Solon, Dryden, Virgil, and Hector.

(4.) ONONDAGO, a town of New York, in Herkemer county, formerly the capital of the Six NATIONS, in a fertile country; 30 miles SW. of Whiteftown.

(5.) ONONDAGO Caftle, a fort, of New York, in Onondago county, 25 m. SW. of Oneida Caf tle, and 155 NNW. of New York.

ONONDAGOES, a nation of N. American Indians, who inhabit the banks of Lake Onondago. In 1775 they had 260 warriors, In 1779, while a party of them were ravaging the American frontiers, Gen. Clinton fent a regiment from Albany, who furprised their capital, took 33 prifoners, and killed 14, without losing a man. ONONGHOUHAGO, a town of New York, on the Sufquehannah, 13 miles E. of Chenongo, ONONIS, in botany, a genus of the decandria order, belonging to the diadelphia clafs of plants; and in the natural method, ranking under the 32d order, papilionacea. The calyx is quinquepartite, with the fegments linear; the vexillum ftriated; the legumen turgid and feffile; the fila ments coalited without a fiffure. The principal species is

ONONIS ARVENSIS. Reft-harrow, or Cammock. See REST-HARROW.

ONOPORDUM, WOOLLY THISTLE, in bo tany, a genus of the polygamia æqualis order, belonging to the fyngenefia clafs of plants; and. in the natural method ranking under the 49th order Compofita. The receptacle is honey-combed; the scales of the calyx mucronated or pointed. (1.) ONORE, a district of Indoftan, in Myfore.

(2.) ONORE, a fea port town of Indoftan, on the coaft of Malabar, in Canara; 46 miles NW, of Bedamore, 70 SSE. of Goa, and 398 S. by E.. of Bombay. Lon. 74. 12. E. Lat. 14. 13. N.

ONOSANDER, a Greek author and Platonic philofopher, who wrote Commentaries on Plato's politics, which are loft; but particularly famous for a treatire entitled Λόγος Στρατηγικός, "Of the duty and virtues of the general of an army;" which has been tranflated into Italian, Spanish, and French. The time when he lived is not pre

ONOSMA, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the pentandria class of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 41ft order, Afperifolia. The corolla is campanulated, with the throat pervious: there are four feeds.

ONOTH, a town of Hungary, 50 miles NE. of Buda. Lon. 19. 22. E. Lat. 48. 12. N. ONOVA, a town of Hungary, 4 miles N. of Pancfowa..

ONRUST, an island in the E. Indian Ocean, on the coaft of Java, in the harbour of Batavia, where the Dutch build and repair their ships. (1.) ONS, an island in the Atlantic, near Spain. Lon. 7. 52. E. of Teneriffe. Lat. 42. 23. N. (2.) ONS EN BRAYE, a town of France, in the dep. of the Oise; 7 miles of Beauvais.

ONSALD, a town of Sweden, in Halland. * ONSET. n. f. [on and set.] 1. Attack; storm; affault; firft brunt.-As well the foldier dieth which standeth still, as he that gives the bravest onfet. Sidney—

All breathlefs, weary, faint,
Him spying, with fresh onset he assail'd. Spens.
The fhout

Of battle now began, and found Of onfet. Milton's Paradife Loft. -Sometimes it gains a point; and presently it finds itself baffled and beaten off; yet ftill it renews the onfet. South.-Without men and provifions it is impoffible to fecure conquefts that are made in the first onfets of an invafion. Addison.— Obferve

The first impetuous onfets of his grief. Philips. 2. Something added or fet on by way of ornamental appendage. This fense, says Nicholson, is ftill retained in Northumberland, where onfet means a tuft.

Shak.

And for an onset, Titus, to advance Thy name and honourable family, Lavinia will I make my emprefs. * To ONSET. v. a. [from the noun.] To fet upon; to begin. Not ufed.-This for a while was hotly onfetted, and a reasonable price offered, but foon cooled again. ¡

ONSLAUGHT. n. f. [on and lay. See SLAUGHTER.] Attack; ftorm; onfet. Not in ufe. Then call'd a council, which was best By fiege or onslaught to invest

The enemy; and 'twas agreed

By ftorm and onslaught to proceed. Hudibras, (1.) ONSLOW, a maritime county of N. Carolina, in Wilmington diftrict, bounded E. by Carteret, SE. by the ocean, SW. by New Hanover and Duplin counties, and N, by Craven county. It contained 3639 citizens, and 1748 flaves in 1795. Swansborough is the capital.

(2.) ONSLOW, a township of Nova Scotia, in Halifax county; 35 miles NE. of Windfor, and 46 N. by W. of Halifax.

(1.) ONTARIO, a lake of N. America, in the country of the Iroquois, 180 miles long and 60 broad, or, as Mr Scott has it in his United States Gazetteer, 273 miles from E. to W. and 73 from N. to S. containing 2,390,000 acres. Manyivers run into it; and from it the ST LAURENCE

proceeds.