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oneadj.n.pron. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian ān , ēn , Middle Dutch ein , een , (Dutch een ), Old Saxon ēn (Middle Low German ēn ), Old High German ein , ehin , ēn , etc. (Middle High German ein , German ein ), Old Icelandic einn , Swedish en , Danish een , en , Gothic ains , < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin ūnus (Old Latin oinos ), Gaulish oinos (in names), Early Irish oen , óen (Irish aon ), Old Welsh, Welsh un , Old Church Slavonic inŭ other, another, (also, usually in jedĭnŭ , in sense ‘one’), Old Prussian ains , Lithuanian vienas , and also ancient Greek οἴνη , Hellenistic Greek οἰνός ace at dice, perhaps ultimately < an extended form of the base of Gothic is he (see he pron.).The expected Middle English form in the south and midlands would have open ō ( < Old English ā : see O n.1), a shortening of the reflex of which is reflected in the modern English regional pronunciation /wɒn/. The vowel in the usual modern pronunciation arises from shortening of /uː/, the reflex of Middle English close ō , in a variant showing the result of raising of the vowel from open ō to close ō . The usual modern pronunciation also reflects the development of a back glide before Middle English open ō and, more rarely, close ō , although this has been only rarely reflected in the spelling; compare oat n., oak n. The widespread nonstandard enclitic 'un (evidenced in rhyme at least as early as the late 17th cent: compare quot. 1675 at sense C. 13b) represents the survival of a form without the back glide. English regional (northern) and Scots forms in y- reflect the development of a front glide before e ; compare oat n. and see further A. J. Aitken & C. Macafee Older Sc. Vowels (2002) §22.2.1. On the pronunciation history see discussion in E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II. §§ 36, 37, 150, 429, 431. An isolated early example of an apparent form with o (compare γ forms) in a mid 10th-cent. manuscript (see quot.) is almost certainly a scribal error (probably a reverse spelling arising from the frequent use of an for on (on prep.) in this manuscript):eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) xviii. 42 Nis monnum þonne mare læfed to bugianne, [b]uton swelce on [lOE Bodl. an] lytel cauertun. In Old English, ān had the full indefinite adjectival inflections, remains of which persisted in the south to c1300, and in Kent still later (see Forms 1b(i); the Old English irregular masculine accusative singular ǣnne (beside regular ānne ) survived into early Middle English as enne ); but, in northern England and the Midlands, the uninflected ān , ōn is found in the accusative and dative, as well as the nominative by 1200. The definite forms (see Forms 2) are not common in Old English, as the strong form is usual even in contexts where the weak form might be expected; they are used only postpositively in the sense ‘alone’ (see sense A. 5). The masculine nominative singular form āna is usual where other cases of the masculine singular, a feminine singular, a neuter singular, or a plural would be expected; the form āne is also used without clear gender distinction. In later Middle English not formally distinct. Some authorities regard these as forms of an adverb, cognate with Old High German eino and Old Icelandic eina . See further B. Mitchell, Old Eng. Syntax (1985) §536–§540 and references given there. Already in the early Middle English, ān , ōn were sometimes reduced before a consonant to ā , ō (oo ) (see Forms 1a β, δ), which persisted until the 16th cent. In northern England and in Scotland, the separation of ān and ā was more permanent. In modern Scots the full form ane , eane , etc., is only used absolutely or in the predicate; ae , eae is the attributive form (before consonants and vowels alike), ae day , ae yeir , we hae ane ; so in northern regional English with yā and yān . From the early an , a , pronounced proclitically without stress, arose the ‘indefinite article’ a adj. In northern regional English the numeral and article were long written alike, the stress or emphasis alone distinguishing them; in 16th cent. Older Scots, both were written ane (see a adj.). By more or less permanent coalescence of a preceding thet , the collocations thet ane , thet one , thet a , thet o , became the tane , the tone , the ta , the to (see tone pron. and adj. and sense C. 10). The exclusive use seen in sense A. 5 is found also in Gothic and Old High German; compare Gothic ni bi hlaib ainana libaid manna man shall not live by bread alone (Luke 4:4), Old High German (Otfrid) then meistar..liazun sie thar eino they (sc. the disciples) left the master there alone (compare Matthew 26:56). Since these occur chiefly in translations, it is not clear whether the usage can be assumed to go back to Primitive Germanic. The use as an indefinite generic pronoun (sense C. 17), which replaced me pron.2, men pron. in late Middle English, may have been influenced by Anglo-Norman hom , on , un , Old French, Middle French on (12th cent.; mid 9th cent. in form om ; French on ; ultimately < classical Latin homō : see homo n.1), though this is not regarded as a necessary influence by some scholars. A. adj. I. As simple numeral, expressing the number of a single thing without any more. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > [adjective] eOE (Parker) anno 879 And þy ilcan geare aþiestrode sio sunne ane tid dæges. eOE (Parker) Introd. Þa heold Seaxburg his cuen an gear þæt rice æfter him. a1225 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Lamb.) 137 in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 167 Hefde he bon þer enne dei oðer twa. c1300 (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 420 For o trespas nis bote o jugement ido. c1330 (?a1300) (Auch.) (1973) 7570 (MED) He sett king Eliteus at her hele Wiþ xv þousand in on eschele. 1382 John vii. 21 I haue don o work, and alle ȝe wondren. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 83 Men þat haueþ..eyȝte fyngres in oon honde. c1425 Concordance Wycliffite Bible in (1968) 43 272 (MED) In Englisch also as in Latyn, ben wordis equiuouse, þat is, whanne oon word haþ manye signyficaciouns or bitokenyngis. 1455 in (1891) 15 150 Item..one whyte chesyple. c1475 MS Trin. Dublin 245 in J. H. Todd (1842) p. vii (MED) Oon famulorum seid of a frere is better than a pater noster. 1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus sig. C.i One man no man. One man lefte alone and forsaken of all the rest, can do lyttell good. 1545 R. Ascham i. f. 15 Except it be one day amonges .xx. or one yeare amonges .xl. 1597–8 in J. Stuart (1841) I. 179 Tua oxin bund in on seill. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. iii. 12 Doe not for one repulse forgoe the purpose That you resolu'd t'effect. View more context for this quotation 1674 in W. Mackay & G. S. Laing (1924) II. 257 On or mor prisoners. 1710 G. Berkeley §12 We say one book, one page, one line, etc.; all these are equally units. 1736 9 135 For on day of on man. 1763 E. Hoyle 163 When your Adversary has a Bishop and one Pawn on the Rook's Line. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in 2nd Ser. III. 9 Beyond the ‘treviss’, which formed one side of the stall, stood a cow. 1882 W. H. White (ed. 2) vi. 231 The commanding officer of one of these ships has stated ‘that they may go through a commission and never heel or roll more than one or two degrees’. 1901 5 Jan. 19/2 The otterman must chuckle inwardly when he sees a perspiring and jaded angler..with one or two fish in his basket. 1950 (Amer. Inst. Real Estate Appraisers) (ed. 2) 16 Board-foot, a unit of measurement represented by a board one foot long, one foot wide, and one inch thick, or its equivalent in volume. 1992 Apr. 35/2 One customer was willing to spend £2,000 on a conservatory made from sustainable timbers. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > firstness > [adjective] c1384 (Douce 369(2)) Titus iii. 10 Schonye thou a man heretyk, aftir oon and the secunde coreccioun..witinge for he that is such maner man is..dampned. a1425 (a1382) (Corpus Oxf.) Ezek. xxxi. 1 In the elleuenthe ȝeer, in the thridde moneth, in oon [a1425 L.V. the firste dai] of the moneth. II. Emphatic uses. 3. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > [adjective] OE (Corpus Cambr.) v. 18 An .i. oððe an prica ne gewit fram þære æ. OE (Corpus Cambr.) xviii. 22 Ða cwæð se hælend an þing þe is wana. lOE (Laud) anno 1117 Se eorl of Flandra mid him mid fyrde into Normandig, & ane niht þær inne wunedon. c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine (1993) 140 Crist mihte eaðe mid ane worde þenne deofel senden on ece lure. c1225 (?OE) (Worcester) (Fragm. F) l. 46 Fiat..he seide... Þus mid one worde al hit was iwurþen. c1230 (?a1200) (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 11 Þis an Boc is todealet in eahte leasse Bokes. a1325 (c1250) (1968) l. 452 Bigamie is unkinde ðing... For ai was rigt and kire bi-forn, On man, on wif, til he was boren. c1387–95 G. Chaucer 304 Noght oo word spak he moore than was neede. a1450 (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 1337 Not an word ageyn he yaf. c1450 MS Douce 52 in (1906) 44 (MED) Oft bryngeth on day, Þat all þe ȝere not may. 1482–4 J. Paston in (2004) I. 621 Non oo man a-lyve hathe callyd so oft vpon yow as I. a1500 (a1450) (BL Add.) (1912) 5065 (MED) Þer she wepte wonderly sore Er þat she myghte sey won worde more. 1548 f. cxxxiiij Thei set not by the Frenche kyng one bene. 1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Apol. A iij b Tell me if..I have omitted any one point of importance. 1615 W. Lawson (1626) 2 No one man is sufficient for these things. 1667 J. Milton i. 32 And transgress his Will For one restraint, Lords of the World besides. View more context for this quotation a1700 T. Ken Hymnotheo in (1721) III. 95 Much more mysterious is my inbred Lust; In no one thing I can the Sorc'ress trust. 1786 W. Gilpin in M. Delany (1862) 2nd Ser. III. 372 We travelled amicably, arm in arm,..we had not one occasion to unlink. ?1818 C. Lamb Let. in Lady Morgan (1859) 49 So you did not vouchsafe one word to me,—what, not one? 1888 J. Bryce II. lii. 303 Some one man must be given the power of direction. 1957 J. Braine (1960) 233 I saw from my reflection in the lighted window..that not one button on my fly was fastened. 1976 G. Gordon 18 ‘I must go in and run the children's bath water,’ she said, finishing her whisky in one gulp and standing up. 2002 28 July i. 24/3 A fine pub game in which you have to find the one London tube station that doesn't contain any letters from the word mackerel. OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz (Corpus Cambr. 191) lxv. 305 Se wer mot habban butan an wif. lOE (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 1070 Þa lægdon hi fyr on, & forbærndon..eall þa tun buton ane huse. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 27 (MED) Erðon he nefde bute enne deofel; nu he haueð sefene. c1275 (?c1250) (Calig.) (1935) 794 (MED) Telstu bi me þe wurs forþan Þat ich bute anne [a1300 Jesus Oxf. enne] craft nekan. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 5162 He nas [a1400 Trin. Cambr.v.r. was] king bote on ȝer. c1395 G. Chaucer 1851 Now sire..but o word er I go; My child is deed. ?a1425 f. 128 (MED) He þat haþ but one weie to his hele, alle ȝif þat weie be not good, he moste holde it wille he nylle he. c1450 tr. (Royal) 20 (MED) Truste thou neuyr in oon sool ffisiciane. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry (1971) cxxiii. 166 He is not so hardy to discouere ne say one onely word. a1500 1513 Crist was noght temptid onely of o vice, bot of thre. 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini v. 286 A litle Rocke hewed out of one stone only. 1596 ‘L. Piot’ tr. A. van den Busche 187 If then one alone ingratitude is punishable. 1601 N. Breton in E. Farr (1845) I. 193 Amidde the ayre one onely phœnix flies. c1618 W. Mure xix. 16 If thou wouchaife bot on smyle. 1698 J. Norris 42 For the Demonstration of this Proposition, I desire but this one Postulatum. 1761 D. Hume III. lx. 297 One person alone of the garrison escaped. 1845 M. Pattison in Jan. 81 He had but one voice amongst many. 1865 J. Lubbock viii. 265 Only one single unworked flint was met with. 1920 J. Galsworthy iii. ix. 283 She had, he knew, but one ambition—to live on her ‘rentes’ in Paris. 1946 50 533/2 In only one aircraft had a hydraulic shimmy damper been used. 1995 Dec. 67/1 These were the days when cider had but one connotation—hard cider. 1828 i. i. 77 Toby, you're one nasty cross dog: get away with you! 1881 H. Smith & C. R. Smith 24 He had the deuce of one crop of barley. 1911 J. London 7 Apr. (1966) 343 Let me tell you that you have given me one hell of a time. 1948 E. Pound lxxviii. 57 Steele that is one awful name. 1967 Dec. 33/1 Although she may not be as good a jazzer as Humph, she's certainly one helluva lot prettier. 1972 A. Price xii. 132 The last two, three weeks he was one worried young man. 1990 31 Mar. 30/2 They sure do play one mean game. 2003 A. Notaro xli. 364 I hope you enjoy it, it's one helluva buzz. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [adjective] > individual or single OE (Northumbrian) xii. 29 Noster deus unus est : user god an is. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1938) 26 (MED) Swa ich habbe ofte isehen þe hali þrumnesse, feader & sune & hali gast, þreo an untodealet. c1330 (?c1300) (Auch.) (1898) 350 (MED) Þe fourme of þre children he mette; Þre he sauh, and as on he hem grette. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke ix. 38 Maistir..byhold in to my sone, for he is oon aloone to me. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 573 (MED) Godd..es an and thre. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville (Vitell.) 8974 Yiff thow be on, declare to me; Yiff thow be double outher tweyne. a1620 M. Fotherby (1622) ii. x. §3. 305 If that word may be vsed, he is of all things, the Onest. 1629 T. Jackson i. 28 His incomprehensible being, who is..most truly One, because indivisible and unmultipliable. 1722 W. Wollaston ix. 189 We know no such thing as a part of matter purely one (or indivisible). 1789 W. Belsham II. xxxvi. 300 The action is neither one, entire, nor great. 1851 F. W. Robertson 3rd Ser. xi. 132 The army is one, and that is the oneness of unity. The soldier is one, but that is the oneness of the unit. 1864 F. C. Bowen viii. 229 The Syllogistic process in the mind is really one and undivided. 1983 M. Cook v. 50 What the Koran has to say of the status of women does not follow from the postulate that God is one. 5. Alone, on one's own. In later use intensified by all (cf. all adj., pron., n., adv., and conj. Phrases 2), and subsequently forming a compound with it (see alone adj.).the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adjective] society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > [adjective] eOE (Royal) (1865) ii. i. 178 Gif of þære wambe anre þa yfelan wætan cumen. OE 1081 Nemne feaum anum. OE (1931) 2134 Eaforan syndon deade, folcgesiðas, nymðe fea ane, þe me mid sceoldon mearce healdan. lOE (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 1070 Þa fand he forbærnd wiðinnan & wiðutan, eall butan þa cyrece ane. a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily De Duodecim Abusivis (Lamb. 487) in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 111 Þu ane ne brukest naut þinra welena. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1934) 34 (MED) Nowðer ne beo nohwer ane wið oðer. ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 73 Ȝef ha nis muchel ane. c1230 (?a1200) (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 83 Þe lauerd of heouene..halt up al þe world wið his anes [v.r. anres] mihte. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) 11916 Þa kinges tweien ane þer wuneden. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 6358 He grette him anon & sede, ‘hail, þou be king one’. a1375 (c1350) (1867) 1415 (MED) Non knew here cunseile but þei þre one. a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. li. 2 For oon I clepede hym. c1395 G. Chaucer 66 Men may conseille a womman to been oon, But conseillyng is no comandement. a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) l. 5 in C. Horstmann (1896) II. 183 To þe an sinned I mare. a1500 tr. Lanfranc (Wellcome) f. 25 Apostumes..þei come of..to muche superfluete of humours, þe mater of whiche comythe syxfold; for outher it is of humours or of blode, Outher of fleweme or coler or malencoly or waters or wyndes—and all þat oon Outher to gedder [L. et hoc aut simpliciter aut composite]. 1556 R. Robinson tr. T. More (ed. 2) sig. Sviv I one of all other..Haue shaped for man a philosophicall citie. 1803 R. C. Dallas II. xii. 165 You one buckra may pass this time, but the next we see we all fire. 1826 C. R. Williams 300 The girls [i.e. slaves]..told him he wanted them all for himself one. 1867 W. F. Allen p. xxvii Me one, and God...Gone home one in de dark. 1924 M. W. Beckwith 37 Anansi wanted the pig to eat an' he wanted to eat him one. 1941 (Writers' Program, S. Carolina) 78 He wife bin dere ter dat hant house—she wan. 1956 in F. G. Cassidy & R. B. Le Page (1967) 331/2 /mii wan kyaang kyary-i/ I can't carry it by myself; /mék jéf wán táak/ Let Geoff say it by himself; /jíen nyám aaf wan húol púdn him wán/ Jane has eaten a whole pudding by herself. 1982 J. A. Holm & A. W. Shilling 147/2 I t'ought was only Curtis one what been dere. OE (Corpus Cambr.) xvi. 32 Ge..forlæton me anne, & ic ne eom ana forþam min fæder is mid me. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) 12827 We hine læteð ane, faren heu swa he wule..þis lond-cnihtes ne durren wið him mare na fehten. c1330 (?c1300) (Auch.) 525 (MED) Þe leches gon & lete Gij one. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 14099 I am left an [a1400 Trin. Cambr. one] to serue yow. c1400 (?c1390) (1940) 2118 Goude sir Gawayn, let þe gome one. a1500 (a1460) (1897–1973) 230 A, good sir, lett hym oone. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or selfhood > self > one's, etc., self c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 1079 Whann he shollde ganngenn inn..aȝȝ himm sellf himm ane. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) 270 (MED) Ha þrinne wes i þeosternesse hire ane. c1225 (?c1200) (Royal) (1934) 33 (MED) Ich leote ham..sitten to-gederes & gomenin bi ham ane. a1375 (c1350) (1867) 3316 (MED) William..forþ rides..al him-self one. c1390 (Vernon) 132 (MED) Þat ladi was laft al hire one. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 630 (MED) Of þat rib he mad woman, Til adam þat was first his an. a1400 (a1325) (Fairf. 14) 2021 Dronkin on slepe lay bi his ane. c1400 (?c1390) (1940) 2245 (MED) We ar in þis valay..oure one. c1400 (a1376) W. Langland (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. ix. 54 (MED) I wente be a wode, walkyng myn one. a1425 (a1400) (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 5841 Þe body with-out saule by it ane. c1480 (a1400) St. Andrew 979 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) I. 91 We sal nocht be ws ane twa. a1500 (?a1450) (Harl. 7333) (1879) lxix. 312 Whenne þat he myȝt fynde hire by hire oone. a1500 (?a1400) (1903) 315 Whan they come by them one two. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > only one > [adverb] a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 181 He [read We] one awlencð alle þe hundlimen and welt þe sowle. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 129 Naut ane under his hond, ac under his fet. c1300 (Laud) (1868) 962 (MED) Þe word sprong..hw he was strong, Hw fayr man god him hauede maked, But on þat he was almest naked. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 6302 (MED) Þou nart noȝt one worþe be of engelond king..Ac to be prince of al þe world. c1380 (1879) 2495 (MED) Of noþyng certis doþ þay drede bot of liflode one. c1400 (?c1380) l. 354 (MED) Hit watz a cete ful syde and selly of brede; On to þrenge þer-þurȝe watz þre dayes dede. a1500 (?a1400) (1903) 3111 Mordred..Callyd hys folke And sayd to hem One: ‘Releve yow, for crosse on Rode!’ ?1541 R. Copland ii. sig. Eijv Wherof is the forheade comsed? Answere. One of the skynne & musculous flesshe. 1561 in (1871) III. xlv But of on thing I think my self assured. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac II. 19 It sufficeth me that I have this one way left me. 1765 S. Foote iii. 53 That's one comfort, however. 1820 J. Keats Isabella in 70 Sing to it one latest lullaby. 1879 J. Morley 140 It is probable, for one thing, that the feelings of the Prince of Wales had more to do with it. 1968 R. Rendell vi. 62 An even temperature, that's one thing my sister tutor always impressed on me. 1994 Fall 22/3 I got caught givin' her the piledriver out in the pickup... Yes, that's one memory that still smacks of candy. III. Undivided; forming a whole; united, the same. 7. Designating a complex whole or entity in which a plurality of components or entities are united or put together; united, joined. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > unity or undividedness > [adjective] > united or made into one OE Ælfric (Royal) (1997) xx. 340 Ælc ðæra þreora is god þeahhwæðere hi ealle an god. c1175 ( (Bodl. 343) (1894) 4 Heo clypoden alle anre stefne to him. c1230 (?a1200) (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 17 Ȝe beoð þreo an godd. c1395 G. Chaucer 1335 They moste nedes lyve in vnitee. O flessh they been. c1450 (c1386) G. Chaucer Prol. 296 They..songen with o vois. a1500 in R. L. Greene (1935) 59 (MED) With on acord Serue we that Lord. 1526 Matt. xix. f. xxvjv They twane shalbe won flesse. 1569 R. Grafton II. 112 The chiefe Lordes..as it were in a fury cryed with one voyce. By the blood of God. 1643 in J. D. Marwick (1881) II. 64 All in on voice. 1660 R. Coke Pref. 1 All men..have with one voice commended Virtue, and decried Vice. 1725 I. Watts i. iv. §1 We join simple ideas to make one complex one. 1799 S. T. Coleridge I. 502 How awful is [the] deep Unison of their undividable Murmur—What a one thing it is! 1849 T. B. Macaulay II. vi. 16 One cry of grief and rage rose from the whole of Protestant Europe. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato I. 188 All of them with one voice vehemently assented. 1931 H. G. Wells (1932) 1 Never before has there been this need and desire to ‘get the hang’ of the world as one whole. 1992 22 Feb. 6/7 Scottish Conservatives must speak with one voice to get their message across. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun] > union in > fact of OE (Junius) ii. xx. 27 (heading) Ðes ærra cwide & ðes æftra is eal an, þeah he þus todæled sy. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) i. 1793 (MED) In armes sche beclipte hire lord And preide..He wolde him torne ayeinward tho; ‘For now,’ sche seith, ‘we ben bothe on.’ a1500 ( (Egerton) (1953) iv. xxxiii. f.79 (MED) The nek also is the ioynture of the heved and the body, and makith hem bothe one. 1590 L. Lloyd 91 The victory of this triumphant King did much exceed all their victories being made one. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán i. 24 She would tell him, that I was his alter ego, that he and I were one. 1667 J. Milton ix. 958 Our State cannot be severd, we are one, One Flesh. View more context for this quotation 1709 R. Steele No. 25. ⁋7 We have been both one these two Months. 1820 W. S. Landor Thrasymedes & Eunoe in 96 He spake; and on the morrow they were one. 1876 C. M. Davies (rev. ed.) 31 In a linguistic point of view the peoples were one. 1920 D. H. Lawrence viii. 111 ‘If,’ said Hermione at last, ‘we could only realise, that in the spirit we are all one, all equal in the spirit, all brothers there.’ 1995 A. Enright 1 I thought he had been wafting about since Aye began, in that place where grief and joy are one. 2000 No. 5. 102/2 The 84-year-old film clip shows Sundown, with braids flowing, limbs akimbo or grasping his hat, riding the bronco like they were one. the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [adjective] the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > [adjective] the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [adjective] > identical the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [adjective] > specific with or to something OE Ælfric (Royal) (1997) xx. 340 Hi ealle habbað an gecynd & ane godcundnysse. OE Ælfric (Royal) (1997) xxii. 357 Hi ealle hæfdon ane heortan, & ane sawle. OE Ælfric (Julius) (1881) I. 20 Ðas feower mægenu habbað ænne kynehelm, þæt is seo soðe lufu, godes, and manna. a1250 Ureisun ure Louerde (Nero) in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 200 (MED) Eorðlich luue and heouenlich ne muhen onone wise bedden in one breoste. a1250 (?a1200) (Nero:Morton) 6 Alle ne muwe nout holden one riwle. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Eph. iv. 6 O Lord, o feith, o baptym, o God and fadir of alle. a1400 (a1325) (Trin. Cambr.) 4246 (MED) Putifar..helde Ioseph in menskeful lore, þei her layes oon not wore. ?a1425 (Cotton App.) (1967) 190 (MED) Þe son..spake for man: ‘Fadir..Both þou and I, one we be.’ c1456 R. Pecock (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 273 (MED) The chirche of Ynglond is oon chirche with the chirche of Fraunce. 1552 (STC 16279) Administr. Lordes Supper sig. N.iiiv We bee one with Chryste, and Christe with vs. 1632 W. Lithgow viii. 353 Their breaches and stockings being all one. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil 129 Beneath one Law they live, And with one common Stock their Traffick drive. View more context for this quotation 1821 P. B. Shelley xlii. 21 He is made one with Nature. a1848 R. W. Hamilton (1853) vii. 323 The author of nature and Christianity is one. 1897 R. Kipling Recessional in 17 July 13/6 Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! 1916 D. H. Lawrence 102 A new night pouring down shall swill Us away in an utter sleep, until We are one. 1979 P. Fitzgerald iii. 42 It grew dark, the darkness seeming to rise from the river to make it one with the sky. 2000 (Nexis) 23 Oct. 2 I was reading that book and I felt one with everything around me. I felt God inside me and that was it. 9. The same or identical in kind, quality, or nature; homogeneous; equivalent. Frequently preceded by all: cf. all one at all adj., pron., n., adv., and conj. Phrases 2. eOE tr. Orosius (BL Add.) (1980) v. xiv. 13 He bebead þæt eall moncynn ane sibbe hæfde & an gafol guldon. eOE (Royal) (1865) i. xlv. 112 Aþwer buteran þe sie gemolcen of anes bleos nytne oððe hinde. a1325 (c1250) (1968) l. 1725 Ðog him boren ðes ones bles [MS onesbles] Vn-like manige and likeles. c1385 G. Chaucer 1012 Two yonge knyghtes... Bothe in oon armes. a1400 (a1325) (Trin. Cambr.) 18845 Berd & heed of on [a1400 Fairf. an] hew were. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland (Laud 581) (1869) B. iii. 238 (MED) Tho þat entren, of o colour and of on wille. ?c1450 tr. (1906) 161 It berithe no force to do ille as forto do welle; alle passithe and vnder one thanke. 1526 2 Cor. xiii. 11 Be of one mynde. 1549 H. Latimer 5th Serm. sig. Riiiv They are all one apples I warrante you Syr. 1634 J. Taylor 7 Men, being compounded and composed all of one mould and mettle, are different and disconsonant in estates, conditions, and qualities. 1798 G. Colman Epilogue p. i We're of one mind, had there been twenty, 'tis carried. 1868 J. N. Lockyer (1879) iii. 56 All the planets revolve round the sun in one direction. 1933 D. Richardson in J. Gawsworth 2nd Ser. ix. 196 Strangers impinging, the sense of a vast company of people by no means all of one mind. 1992 S. Holloway xxviii. 219/2 There should be one rate of pay nationally for the Service. eOE (Royal) (1865) ii. xxviii. 224 Gewyrc þe læcedom þus of ecede & of hunige..wylle on godum gledum clænum & cwicum oþ þæt hit sie gemenged þæt hit sie an & hæbbe huniges þicnesse. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 3090 Þatt wass inoh all an wiþþ þatt Þatt godess enngell seȝȝde. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) v. 1992 (MED) Wher he pourposeth him to fare..The smale path, the large Strete, The furlong, and the longe Mile, Al is bot on for thilke while. a1425 J. Wyclif (1869) I. 26 It is al oon to seie þat þese goodis ben þus sacrid. tr. Palladius (Duke Humfrey) (1896) ix. 204 (MED) This Aust and May in houris lengthe are oon. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville (Cambr.) (1869) 29 (MED) For j seyd not in alle places but in alle times, And that is not oon. a1500 (?a1450) (Harl. 7333) (1879) 154 (MED) ‘Graunt me that I may deye for my fadir.’ ‘I assent..for al is on to me, so þat on be dede.’ 1584 R. Scot v. ix. 110 It [sc. witchcraft] is all one with rebellion. 1631 R. Bolton 35 All is One to Him, to make an Angell, or an Ant. c1670 T. Hobbes 50 Which is also one as if he were Judge himself. 1751 R. Paltock II. xxi. 270 For its all one to her with whom she [sc. a mistress] engages, so she can raise but the Market by a Change. 1816 J. Wilson i. iv. 371 All names are one to me. 1861 G. W. Dasent tr. II. 402 Silver by tale and silver by weight was all one. 1930 C. Williams iii. 35 I gather it's all one to you whether we take it or leave it? 1981 S. McAughtry i. 11 Interviews could come and interviews could go: it was all one to the punters. society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > [adjective] > not at variance OE Wærferð tr. Gregory (Hatton) (1900) ii. xvi. 136 Þa halgan weras swa swyðe swa hi beoð an samod mid drihtne, swa swyðe hi witon drihtnes andgit. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 5740 Forr himm ne birrþ nohht beon all an Wiþþ naniȝ mann i sinne. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) ii. 24 At haly kirke's fayth alle on were boþe. 1548 f. ccxij Rimes and poyses, whiche purported the Frenche kyng, and the erle of Warwicke wer al one. 1616 G. Chapman tr. Homer xv. 202 If still thus thou and I were one, (in counsels held aboue) Neptune would still, in word and fact, be ours, if not in heart. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer I. iii. 155 Thy Sire and I were one; nor vary'd aught In publick sentence, or in private thought. 1803 T. Campbell 3 Their swords are a thousand, their bosoms are one! 1804 W. Pitt in G. Rose (1860) II. 97 Addington and I are one again. 1850 Ld. Tennyson cxx. 188 In all her motion one with law. View more context for this quotation 1885 May 48/2 The basic justification of Whittier's religious trust appears to be the ‘inward light’ vouchsafed to a nature in which the prophet and the poet are one. 1909 V. 127/2 The Church is Catholic, diffused throughout the world, and necessarily one and united. 1991 C. Mansall v. 63/1 We are One by reason of our creation and nothing should divide us from that sense of Oneness. OE Ælfric (Julius) (1900) II. 238 Ac on ane anrædnysse æfre wunigende. c1230 (?a1200) (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 7 For þi ha is eauer & an [a1250 Nero euer on] wið ute changunge. a1400 (a1325) (Trin. Cambr.) 1024 In oon elde shal he euer be fast. a1450 (Faust.) (1883) l. 1835 Euer stonde stylle in won dygre. 1569 R. Grafton II. 155 But the weight of the ounce Troy,..continued alwayes one. a1591 H. Smith (1866) I. 169 Month after month he is all one. 1656 T. Stanley II. v. 16 Nothing is one, constant, nor the same, because all things are in continuall alteration and fluxion. 1744 G. Berkeley (ESTC T72826) §344 God remains for ever one and the same. 1869 M. Pattison (1885) 188 Existence is one and uniform throughout the cognoscible. 1974 R. C. Zaehner 12 ‘All is One, and One is All..’, seems to have been..what Aldous Huxley considered to be the kernel of..the ‘perennial philosophy’. IV. In a particularizing or partitive sense. (In attributive use.) the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > an individual thing or person > one of the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [adjective] > a particular or certain eOE (Parker) anno 891 Hit sie feaxede steorra, forþæm þær stent lang leoma of, hwilum on ane healfe, hwilum on ælce healfe. lOE (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 1116 Eall þis belamp on an Frigdæg. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 133 Att ænne time whanne hiss lott. Wass cumenn upp to þeowwtenn He toc hiss recle fatt onn hand. & ȝede inn to þe temmple. c1225 (?c1200) (1973) 2 (MED) Constantin & Maxence weren, on ane time..hehest i Rome. a1325 (c1250) (1968) l. 2769 Moyses was numen an sel In ðe deserd. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 83 In oo contray of Ynde. a1400 (a1325) (Trin. Cambr.) 10180 In þre his godes dud he dele..To pore he ȝaf a party one. a1450 (Cambr. Dd.1.17) (1845) 2807 (MED) As he rode in the londe, O day a toun he fande. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry (1971) cix. 147 [He] sayd to his moder that one tyme shold come. 1548 f. ccxxxiii One day there entered into the towne..ix.M.Englishmen. 1588 J. Udall sig. A4v I hope to see them one day all put downe. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye II. 230 One-while we weep, and sodainly we laugh againe. 1670 in 10 655 To satisfy in sacco on day. 1692 E. Walker tr. Epictetus xxxiv One while your Hand you'll try In Wrestling. ?1750 (ed. 2) xiii. 214 Being feasting one Night with several of his Subjects. 1786 R. Burns 57 Ae dreary, windy, winter night. 1856 J. A. Froude (1858) I. i. 17 Such is one aspect of these old arrangements. 1965 C. Brown i. 15 The judge told Mama that he knew what he was doing and that one day she would be grateful to him for doing it. 1985 26 Apr. 47/3 I got into this one office full of..video gear. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > an individual thing or person > one of > one in antithesis to another OE Ælfric (Royal) (1997) xxxi. 439 Þeos ðridde india hæfð on anre sidan þeostru & on oþre ðone grimlican garsecg. lOE (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1123 Se king rad in his derfald and se biscop Roger of Seresbyrig on an half him, and se biscop Rotbert Bloet of Lincolne on oðer half him. c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham (1902) 23 Þer hys o þyng yked, An oþer to onder-stonde. c1390 G. Chaucer 552 It wol lasten parauenture from oon Estre day vn to another Estre day and moore. a1425 J. Wyclif (1869) I. 28 Oon elde axiþ o manere of lyvynge and anoþir anoþir. 1429 IV. 360/1 Oone yere with anothyr. 1548 f. x No pope ner kynge entended too priuilege any one place wherein it is lawefull for one manne to doo another manne wronge. a1578 R. Lindsay (1899) II. 193 [With] ane M. one the on syd and on the vthir syd ane letter callit this J. a1592 R. Greene (1599) 5 Giuing them one day an incarnatiue to heale, and the next day a contrary medicine to fester. 1619 E. M. Bolton in tr. Florus Pref. sig. B1v The varietie of matter makes the mind abruptly flit from one thing to another. 1646 Sir T. Browne 189 We may aberre from the proper acception, mistaking one side for another. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil 126 One Monarch wears an honest open Face;..That other looks like Nature in disgrace. View more context for this quotation 1701 R. Gough (1875) 115 His imployment was buying corne in one markett towne and selling it in another, which is called badgeing. 1749 H. Fielding III. vii. vii. 48 What's one Man's Meat is another Man's Poison. View more context for this quotation 1782 F. Burney I. ii. 17 One moment he flippantly extolled the entertainments of the town; and the next, rapturously described the charms of the country. 1859 C. Dickens ii. v. 58 Up one minute and down the next; now in spirits and now in despondency! 1867 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait I. 518 An individual body..may be isotropic in one quality or class of qualities, but æolotropic in others. 1928 10 Aug. 102/1 No one part of that vast battlefield in Flanders and France is charged with more horrible memories than another. 1965 E. E. Evans-Pritchard iii. 112 In relation to one or other segment of society. 1989 Oct. 76/1 One week it was transvestism, the next an affair with a midget. 2003 10 Mar. 87/1 In attempting to solve one kind of intelligence problem (overdiagnosis), the hospital simply created another problem (underdiagnosis). V. As indefinite article. eOE (Corpus Cambr. 422) ii. 255 An fugel siteð on Fili[s]tina middelgemærum. OE Ælfric (Royal) (1997) xxii. 358 Entas woldon aræran ane burh. OE Ælfric (Cambr. Gg.3.28) i. 181 Geworhte of ðam ribbe ænne wifman. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 3364 Ȝe shulenn findenn ænne child. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 31 (MED) Ðo cam on angel of heuene to [þe herdes]..and godes brihtnesse bilihte hem. a1200 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Trin. Cambr.) 348 in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 230 [Þ]urh one godelease wude to one bare felde. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) 10524 Ich æm ennes cnihtes [c1300 Otho on eorles] sune. c1275 (?c1250) (Calig.) (1935) 14 In one hurne of one breche. a1400 (a1325) (Trin. Cambr.) 11551 He made oon ordinaunce in hiȝe. c1400 (?c1380) 9 (MED) Allas! I leste hyr in on erbere. a1450 (Faust.) (1883) 567 Of on myracule now I chulle ȝow tell. 1462 in J. Stuart (1844) I. 23 Ane worthy knycht. c1485 ( G. Hay (2005) 2 Ane hye and mychty prince. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun (Nero) iii. l. 1046 Ane honest man. 1514 R. Pace in H. Ellis (1824) 1st Ser. I. 111 My sayde lorde was oon faytheful man. 1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo 719 in (1931) I. 77 Ȝe bene one Ypocrite. 1567 (1897) 128 Ane sweit humill hart. a1586 Peblis to Play in W. A. Craigie (1919) I. 177 Ane ȝoung man..with ane bow and ane bolt. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece (1858) I. 3 Ane profound clerk is he. 1618 in R. C. MacLeod (1938) I. 117 Wythin ane purse and one little round buist. 1689 in (1875) XII. 71/1 That one imbarguo be layed on all shipps goeing to France. 1695 in F. J. Grant (1890) p. xliv Ane convenient house. 1857 H. S. Riddell cxxix. 2 Monie ane time hae thaye afflicket me. 1888 C. C. Jones 65 Dem haffer go tru one tick swamp. 1972 E. B. Carr iv. 47 We goin' have one party—I like you come, eh? 1972 E. B. Carr ix. 142 I thirsty, an' I drink jus' like one horse. 1973 W. K. Johnstone 86 When I plague with de heart trouble, I gwan to one doctor to see bout it. 1996 (Indian ed.) Indian Eng. Supp. s.v. I met one lady the other day. B. n. As simple numeral. 1. OE Byrhtferð (Ashm.) (1995) i. iv. 54 Nim þæt þrittig getæl and þæt an and do to þam fifum þe October hæfð. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 11260–64 Ȝiff þu takesst onn att an..Þa riseþþ upp þin tale anan..ȝiff þu sammnesst twa till an Þu findesst þreo togeddre. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 325v Oon is þe roote and moder of nombres. c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele (1922) 45 (MED) Naturelle [progression] it is whan me begynnethe with one and kepethe ordure ouerlepyng one, as .1.2.3. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay ii. 16 Of vnitie or one in nombering, proceedeth..all the multiplicities..we see. c1620 A. Hume (1870) ii. xi. §9 Ane is a noun of number. 1660 T. Stanley III. i. 55 They make a difference betwixt the Monad and One, conceaving the Monad to be that which exists in intellectualls; One, in numbers. 1705 J. Vanbrugh v. i One, two, three, and away! 1752 Table to find Easter-Day, To find the Golden Number, or Prime, add one to the Year of our Lord, and then divide by 19; the remainder, if any, is the Golden Number. 1894 G. L. Mello (ed. 2) 74 Repeat—one! two! 1993 18 June a1/16 If I give you a number, there's always somebody who will want to make it that number plus one. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > [noun] > symbol denoting ?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele (1922) 5 (MED) Here þe figure of one tokens ten. c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele (1922) 37 (MED) And yf the figure wherof me shal borow the vnyte be one, put it a-side and write a cifre in the place þerof. 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner 217 Vlstadius prescribeth a certaine destillation in ashes wyth so softe a fyre, that thou maiste number one. ii. iii. betwene one drop and an other. a1626 N. Breton Ctesse Penbrokes Love in (1879) I. 23 As vnto the sea, a water droppe, And to the sandes, a little pibble stone, And as a corne, vnto a haruest croppe, And vnto infinite, the number one. 1785 (Libr. of Congr.) (1933) XXVIII. 376 The geographer shall designate the townships..by numbers progressively from south to north; always beginning each range with number one. 1820 ii. v. 30 (stage direct.) Pirates asleep in different places.—On one side, a gigantic figure holding a clock, and pointing to the figure one. 1870 Apr. 98 The relative proportion by weight in any compound of hydrogen and carbon can always be expressed by the number six and its multiples for carbon, and the number one and its multiples for hydrogen. 1919 B. Russell i. 7 Let ‘0’ mean the number one, let ‘number’ mean the set 1, [etc.]. 1970 O. Dopping ii. 50 The most common form of redundancy check is the parity check, in which the value of a check bit is determined by the parity (odd or even) of the number of ones in the unit to be checked. 1991 25 Apr. 3/4 We've been pestered all day by people asking about the price of the sherry decanters. I keep having to tell them that he left a one out, they are not £4.95 but £14.95. 2000 18 Apr. (Home Forum section) 18 A nonillion is a one with 30 zeroes after it. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > [noun] > one thing 1543 R. Record ii. sig. Q.iii The fyrste place is the place of vnities or ones, and euery counter set in that lyne betokeneth but one. ?1578 W. Patten 74 Nor [two] it selfe can well bee coounted a number, but rather a freendle coniunction of too onez. 1594 T. Blundeville i. i. f. 1 Number is a collection or somme of many ones added together. 1660 T. Stanley III. iii. 5 All singulars are reduced to a One, that is, to their respective communities. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or selfhood > self > oneself or own interest a1566 R. Edwards (1571) sig. Bj All my tyme at Schoole I haue not spent vaynly, I can helpe one, is not that a good point of Philosophy? 1740 tr. C. de F. de Mouhy II. 264 But, my Gentleman..very silently made off, to take care of one. 1805 ‘C. Caustic’ (ed. 3) II. iv. 15 'Tis said by other some That charity begins at home, That each man should take care of one, Nor fight when there is room to run. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. iii. 43 We are..to come..by ones, by twoes, & by threes. View more context for this quotation 1649 T.B. ii. ii. 10 (stage direct.) Bandits passe over the stage by ones, and by couples, bleeding and led. 1840 W. M. Thackeray i Afterwards, sauntering by ones and twos, came the village maidens. 1889 13 Feb. 3/1 Magazines..which are now sold in ones where they used to be sold in hundreds. 1929 M. de la Roche xix. 256 By ones, twos, and threes her descendants came to mourn over their progenitress. 1977 ‘A. York’ vi. 81 Troubles never go in ones, do they? 1994 Mar. 32/2 The missile rack is loaded with six Havoc missiles that can be fired in ones or twos or altogether. 2. the world > time > particular time > [noun] > the time or time of day > specific times of day 1435 in J. F. South & D. Power (1886) App. 319 Of tymes & houris sett of comynge togidere..if it be seid to come at oon of the clocke or at ij or bi oon or bi ij, etc., it is than alwei to understonde to be there at the same hour or bi half an hour after. a1450 ( G. Chaucer ii. §3 85 From xi of the clokke unto oon of the clokke..from xi of the clokke before the houre of noon til oon of the clokke next folewyng. 1548 f. lxxxxiiijv On Mondaie..by one of the Clocke. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. vi. 19 To night at Hernes-Oke, iust 'twixt twelue and one . View more context for this quotation 1671 Kirkcudbright Town Council Rec. 20 May in (1983) V. 75/1 On efter midnight. 1718 M. Prior 30 St. Dunstan's, as they pass'd, struck one. 1774 C. J. Phipps 38 At one in the afternoon, being still amongst the loose ice. 1828 50 This mode of working continued till shell-blow at half past one by the sun-dial. 1833 H. Martineau (ed. 3) ii. 18 Setting out the table for dinner; for it was near one o'clock. 1880 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ I. 13 I will send the coupé for you at a quarter to one. 1883 Dec. 46/1 The old-fashioned one-o'clock dinner. 1938 D. Du Maurier xxiv. 402 Mrs. de Winter had a hair appointment from twelve until one thirty. 1964 Mrs. L. B. Johnson 15 July (1970) 178 A little past one my enthusiasm played out and I put my head in the pillow. 1994 May 9/1 It was just past one in the morning at a small club in Philadelphia. the mind > emotion > zeal or enthusiasm > zealously [phrase] the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy the mind > will > wish or inclination > willingness > [adverb] > readily or promptly the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > moving swiftly in specific manner [phrase] > with briskness the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adverb] 1847 J. O. Halliwell II. 588/2 Like one-o'clock, i.e. very rapidly, said of a horse's movement, &c. 1851 H. Mayhew I. 29/1 Then he trotted on like one o'clock. 1853 C. Dickens xx. 200 Mr. Guppy and Mr. Jobling..find Krook still sleeping like one o'clock..quite insensible to any external sounds, or even to gentle shaking. 1870 M. Bridgman I. xviii. 317 We pulled every one to pieces like one o'clock. 1901 M. Franklin xix. 161 He had a taste for literature, and we got on together like one o'clock. 1924 J. Galsworthy iii. xv. 321 Anything about the meeting, sir? Your speech must read like one o'clock! 1970 V. C. Clinton-Baddeley viii. 179 It's going to rain like one o'clock. 2000 (Nexis) 30 Oct. 16 I tell you though, I am shedding weight like one o'clock. 3. With other numerals in expressions of probability, proportion, etc. 1583 G. Babington vii. 357 A thousande to one we forsake the Lorde.] a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. i. 72 Twenty to one then, he is ship'd already. View more context for this quotation 1692 R. Bentley v. 31 It is so many Million of millions of odds to one against any single throw, that the assigned Order will not be cast. 1719 D. Defoe 189 It would be a thousand to one but he would repent his Choice. 1876 O. W. Holmes How Old Horse won Bet in (1884) 309 I'll bet you two to one I'll make him do it. 1922 J. Joyce ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 165 I could have got seven to one against Saint Amant a fortnight before. 1952 E. J. Pratt in R. Brown & D. Bennett (1982) I. 299 What though the odds were nine to one against, And the Dead March was undertoning trumpets. 1987 Nov. 13/1 It's a gambling scam where the odds for losing your bucks are a thousand to one. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus vi. iv. 126 By a Tribunitian law it was brought vnto halfe one in the hundred; and in the end vsury was wholy forbidden.] 1662 J. Graunt iii Agues and Fevers are entred promiscuously, yet..it appears that not above one in 40, of the whole are Agues. a1716 R. South (1717) VI. 9 Scarce one, in Five Thousand..knows so much as what Popery means. 1749 H. Fielding IV. x. ii. 17 There is not, perhaps, one in ten thousand [women] who is capable of making a good Actress. View more context for this quotation 1880 28 Feb. 2/3 The credit-man of a large dry goods jobbing house stated that..not one in five hundred gave them notes. 1917 A. Woollcott Oct. (1944) 38 He is a marvel of good humor, consideration and dignity—one in a thousand. 1949 9 Aug. 10/5 His chance of becoming an American railroad president is probably about one in ten million. 1998 Sept. 103/3 One in 1,000 people has this neurological disorder. 1830 M. Edgeworth 18 Oct. (1971) 419 The inclined plane the rise of which was one in 36. 1883 7 Nov. 5/5 The impossible gradient of one in 25..is..denounced..as the haulage would have to be trebled, and three horses employed in place of one. 1910 R. Kipling in Oct. 365/2 It was all of a one in three gradient. 1968 N. Tranter iii. 37 Down at the foot of a one-in-three hill, I found myself in some sort of village. 1976 J. Wainwright i. 11 I slither and skid the car up the one-in-six. 2000 (Nexis) 26 Feb. (Sport section) 9 I couldn't believe the conditions... It must have been a one in four slope across the pitch. 4. the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > that pulls vehicle 1737 A. Pope i. i. 158 The Poor..run..They know not whither..in a Chaise and one. 1777 P. Thicknesse II. lv. 185 If you can find me out a sensible valetudinarian..who will travel as we do..in a landau and one. 1785 W. Cowper i. 5 Two citizens who take the air Close pack'd and smiling in a chaise and one. 1819 J. Keats 19 June (1947) 348 Did not Mrs A. sport her Carriage and one? 1861 19 Jan. 1/1 (advt.) Tradesman's funeral, hearse and pair, and coach and pair... [£]6 6 0. Artisan's funeral, hearse and one, and coach and one... [£]3 18 6. society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > English banknotes > [noun] > one-pound note society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > foreign banknotes > [noun] > U.S. > one-dollar bill 1846 2 Oct. 2/6 Independent of the older issues, and such as are described in the Detectors, Ones, on the Banks of ‘Broome county’ and ‘Whitestown’..have made their appearance. 1935 H. Walpole i. i. 22 Klitch gave him three ten-pound notes and the rest in ones. 1967 ‘A. Gilbert’ iii. 45 I counted the notes, which took a ridiculously long time as they were mostly in ones. 1998 June 62/3 (advt.) Spanish and Spanish-American ‘Cobs’ in gold and silver. All denominations, especially ones and twos. 2003 (Nexis) 12 Jan. 2 b A man..paid for his meal and then asked for a $20 bill in exchange for three fives and five ones. the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > expressions of disapproval [phrase] the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > expressions of commendation [interjection] 1909 J. R. Ware 142/2 Go down one, to be vanquished. 1909 J. R. Ware 143/2 Go up one, applause. Derived from the school class—the scholar going one nearer the top as he goes up one. 1967 E. Lemarchand v. 59 ‘I was thinking maybe..the blood on that made the mark.’ ‘So was I,’ said Pollard. ‘Go up one.’ 5. With prefixed noun. the world > time > relative time > the past > [noun] > time long past or long ago the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > long ago 1754 S. Foote i. 4 A Coach of his Grandfather's, built in the Year One. 1853 D. M. Mulock II. v. 173 Fred was a very fascinating young fellow when I was a child—But all that belongs to the year One. 1916 E. F. Benson ix. 157 Every one always has cribbed in Tovey's since the year one. 1969 L. Sanders (1970) vii. 23 While I was in their bedroom I saw a safe that must date from Year One. 1970 10 Nov. 13/7 The government knew from day one that fifty bob would settle the job. 1999 Sept. 111/1 I wanted a merger from day one, with no fiddling around with alliances. 2001 1 July xiv. 12/4 This type of concert on the green has been going on since the year one. 2015 N. Smith tr. J. Nesbo ix. 63 They were on the wrong track from day one. 1611 Gen. i. (heading) Book 1: Genesis.] 1792 Ld. Mountmorres I. 171 Upon a consideration of the third of Edward the fourth, chapter one, which act ascertains parliamentary privilege in Ireland. 1801 W. Dimond i. iii. 35 End of act one. 1833 R. H. Dana 70 We read, last night, mama, through chapter one, And left the second in the midst. 1885 c. 70 §8 Sub-section one of section fifteen of the Sea Fisheries Act, 1883. 1949 C. G. Goetzel I. p. vii The final chapter of Part One covers briefly the many uses for metal powders that are somewhat beyond the sphere of interest of the powder metallurgist. 1997 Summer 24/3 Chapter one incorrectly subverts the centrality of the moral interpretation over the mystical in exegesis. 1941 O. L. Spencer in Summer 15/2 He didn't have penny one on him but he had a fist full of tricks. 1956 N. Algren ii. 238 Mama knew that soon or late the hour would come when the hurry-up wagon would haul girls with pride and girls with none, those who had saved and those without Penny One. 1960 R. Leckie 4 Pistol Pete [sc. a type of Japanese gun] ain't let out fart one all day. 1991 11 Mar. 4/1 Unlike the income tax, Social Security has no exemptions for low-income workers, who pay on dollar one. 2002 (Nexis) 6 Sept. 41 Then there's Mason..a flamboyant Chelsea guy who did not know thing one about baseball until he got Darren's account. C. pron. I. As simple numeral. OE 10 Þær sceal Nyd wesan twega oþer ond se torhta Æsc an an linan, Acas twegen, Hægelas swa some. OE (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1014 Gewearð him & þæt folc on Lindesige anes þæt he hine horsian sceoldon. OE (1942) 117 Gehyrde ic þæt Eadweard anne sloge swiðe mid his swurde. c1330 (?a1300) (Auch.) (1973) 5761 (MED) He slouȝ þre oȝaines anne. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) 2 Cor. xi. 24 I resceyuede of the Jewis fyue sythis fourty strokis, oon lesse. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 19339 All als an þai gaf ansuer. a1439 J. Lydgate (Bodl. 263) ix. 3601 (MED) Praying..the Lord, oon, too, & thre..To sende you..prosperite. a1475 (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 389 (MED) Þe king comaundid to bringe..A sheep..And þe king anoon it slow..And euery man slowh oon at þe leste. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane f. lxxij By mo wayes than one. 1586 in W. A. Craigie (1920) lxi. 45 Sen..England monye tratouris bred Quhat fairlie then thocht we haue on. 1611 Deut. i. 23 I tooke twelue men of you, One of a tribe. View more context for this quotation c1670 in W. Fraser (1885) III. 344 Wpon the turnpyk..twa windowes..and in the east towre on. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury i. i. 9 They are all Archimedes's in their way; and can make a World upon easier Terms than he offer'd to move one. 1727 (West Sussex Rec. Office: Goodwood 1884) The Batt Men for every One they count are to touch the Umpires Stick. 1823 Ld. Byron xxxiii. 69 Thermometers sunk down to..one. 1871 Mar. Supp. 1/2 The one-and-sixpenny packet contains 100 varieties. 1898 H. G. Hutchinson 235 The Burscoughs won this never-to-be-forgotten match by one. 1937 C. Candler II. xvii. 120 As the proportion of calcium in the powder is diminished step by step, the weaker lines successively disappear until finally only one is left. 1996 23 July 12/5 Two cases of auto-immune thyroiditis, one of pernicious anaemia and one other case of dermatomyositis. II. Emphatic uses. OE 705 Sceotend swæfon, þa þæt hornreced healdan scoldon, ealle buton anum. lOE (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1131 On þa tun þa wæs tenn ploges oðer twelfe gangende ne belæf þær noht an. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 49 Turtle ne wile habbe no make bute on. c1390 G. Chaucer 16 Now lakketh vs no tales mo than oon. c1500 in J. Harley et al. (1928) I. 421 (MED) xxxti days hath Novembre, June, Aprill, and Septembre; of xxviij there is but on, and all the remenunt xxxj. 1782 Clunzee in R. Burns I. 364 I loe nae a laddie but ane. ?1818 C. Lamb Let. in Lady Morgan (1859) 49 So you did not vouchsafe one word to me,—what, not one? 1990 5 Jan. ii. 3/3 Only one out of the 88 [women] recruited last year for the infantry managed to make it through basic training. †3. OE (Laud) xxxii. 21 Þis folc..hæfð geworht ane þa mæstan synne & Gode þa laþustan. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1934) 30 (MED) Leowse þi fot..& swa lanhure leoþe me, meiden an eadiest, þet ich eðie mahe, & ich mot nede. a1375 (c1350) (1867) 264 (MED) Goþ yond to a gret lord þat gayly is tyred, & on þe feirest frek..þat i haue seie. c1395 G. Chaucer 734 She was oon the faireste vnder sonne. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) ii. 272 On þe fairest toun, þat was in his pouste. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) ii. 4906 (MED) Dares likith hym discryue, Þe best archer on þer-of a-lyve. a1439 J. Lydgate (Bodl. 263) viii. 3227 Which..was oon the best kniht. a1475 J. Fortescue (Laud) (1885) 114 (MED) Dwellyn thai in on the most fertile reaume of the worlde. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. vi. 166 He is one The truest manner'd. View more context for this quotation 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher ii. iv. 46 Ferdinand My Father,..was reckon'd one The wisest Prince, that there had reign'd. View more context for this quotation a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 3078 He was archer wit best of an [a1400 Fairf. Þen was he archer best of ane; a1400 Gött. An archer was he best of an]. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 74 The starkest man of ane. a1505 R. Henryson Bludy Serk 18 in (1981) 159 A fowll gyane of ane. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1960) xi. vi. 100 The gret Agamemnon,..cheif ledar of on. 1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 1627 in (1931) I Nemrod..Quhilk wes the Principall man of one. 1572 (a1500) (1882) 578 In ane Rob him arrayit richest of ane. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece (1858) II. 507 Of Norrowa ane grit nobill of one. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) 904 Heora nomen ne herdi neuer tellen..boten þes anes name þa heore alre lauerd wes. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay iii. 33 The One or Vnitie wherevpon all the diuine Vnities are grounded. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus i. iv. 7 That the Common-wealth was but one bodie, and therefore to be gouerned by ones onely wisedome. 1629 W. Mure Sonnets in (1898) I. 58 The gallouse is but arles Quhilk for thé gaips and laiks but ones consent. 1744 G. Berkeley (ESTC T72826) §343 The Good or One. 1839 P. J. Bailey 294 Thus spake the One again: Behold, O Earth!..it is I who gave thee birth. 1932 A. G. Herbert tr. A. T. S. Nygren I. vi. 146 For Plotinus the whole world process is summed up in the double conception of the out-going of all things from the One..and the return of all things to the One. 1946 H. Renard i. 30 The problem of change and becoming is..only an aspect of the fundamental question of the one and the many. 1994 3 27/2 The Vision Smoke Way was manifested by burning Prayer Sticks which created the Prayer Smoke that took our prayers up to the One. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > [noun] > as opposed to none 1481 W. Caxton tr. (1970) 74 Ther ben many of them that for his sake and loue wille auenture lyf and good. I know my self for one. c1784 H. Nelson Let. to Locker in A. Duncan (1806) 321 I for one am determined. 1934 J. B. Priestley ix Not I, for one. 1987 F. Wyndham v. 62 I for one am..tired of looking at monuments portraying middle-aged men on horse-back. †III. Expressing identity. Obsolete. OE Ælfric (St. John's Oxf.) 258 We and ge wyllað an. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 5732 Hiss bodiȝ wiþþ hiss gast Sammtale..wurrþe. Swa þatt teȝȝ baþe ȝeornenn an. & follȝhenn an wiþþ wille. c1395 G. Chaucer 537 A trewe wight and a theef thenken nat oon. IV. In a particularizing or partitive sense. 7. In referring to some particular person or thing from among several or many. eOE (Parker) anno 875 Ęlfred cyning..gefeaht wiþ vii sciphlæstas & hiera an gefeng. OE (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 4 Gif he forlyst an of þam, hu ne forlæt he þonne nigon & hundnigontig on þam westene. c1175 ( (Bodl. 343) (1894) 8 Þa clypode moyses him to ænne his cnihtæ, þe wæs ihaten robii. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 219 On of þo was ysaie þe prophete. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 21 (MED) Þah ure an heofde idon eower alre sunne. a1325 (c1250) (1968) l. 861 On of hem ðe flogen a-wei Told it abram ðat ilke deai. 1340 (1866) 129 Be enne of his angles. c1395 G. Chaucer 932 Oon of the beste farynge man on lyue. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 19509 (MED) Philip, þat was o dekens an, þe neiest fra steuen, was slan. a1425 (a1400) (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 259 Ane of þer four. a1450 St. Etheldreda (Faust.) l. 992 in C. Horstmann (1881) 2nd Ser. 304 (MED) Won of hem þouȝt þat he nolde not spare. 1490 W. Caxton tr. (1885) x. 272 But of all Fraunce I am one of the best & truest knyght that be in it. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun (Nero) viii. l. 4881 Þis is ane of my ladeis pynnys. c1500 383 How one of tho His lady sleuth. 1587 F. Thynne Ann. Scotl. 429/2 in (new ed.) II This murther of the king was one of the most filthiest acts that euer was done in Scotland. 1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Comm. Notable Thinges in tr. J. G. de Mendoza 399 Euerie one of them are bound to giue the king to eate. 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre ii. 40 in tr. Procopius He killed on of their best men, and routed the rest. 1664 in J. Stuart (1872) II. 208 Ane of the most antient royall burghes. 1795 July 581/2 Irony..is one of those edged tools which require skilful handling. 1835 J. Raine in p. x Reginald, one of the most credulous of hagiologic writers. 1855 T. B. Macaulay III. xii. 204 One of the wealthiest Roman Catholics in the kingdom. 1897 15 June 3/4 They were members of the Salvation Army, one of them, a woman, describing herself as the sergeant-major. 1937 ‘M. J. Farrell’ iii. 19 It had been one of the quick things in her life, this engagement. 1979 D. Halberstam (1980) ii. vi. 292 One of the Time's handymen built a large table with a felt top to muffle the sound. 1996 L. Al-Hafidh et al. (ed. 3) II. x. 494 The cathedral..is one of the few great English churches that is not a hodge-podge of different styles. 2002 Mar. 86/2 Pride is one of our biggest failings. society > society and the community > [noun] > social group > exclusive > one belonging to 1785 F. Grose One of us, one of my cousins, a woman of the town, a harlot. 1846 R. Ford ix. 94 The rider's..great object should be to pass in a crowd, either unnoticed, or to be taken for ‘one of us’. 1908 E. M. Forster xi. 188 ‘Make Lucy one of us,’ she said... ‘Lucy is becoming wonderful.’ 1938 F. D. Sharpe i. 13 Underworld men and women..refer to themselves as ‘wide people’ or ‘one of us’. a1967 J. R. Ackerley (1968) xvi. 185 I divined that he was homosexual, or as we put it, ‘one of us’. 1976 27 May 16/4 It would go a long way towards helping..to understand..if others would stop saying ‘New Commonwealth’ when they mean something like ‘coffee-coloured’ and ‘Old Commonwealth’ when they mean..‘One of us’. the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person 1927 C. Mackenzie (1986) i. iii. 40 Such a dear boy! One of those. But what does it matter? 1956 L. McIntosh vii. 103 ‘He was—you know—one of those’..‘What, a pansy?’ ‘That's right,’ said Julian, ‘he was camp.’ 1977 24 Mar. 18/2 Her husband..probably fits none of the stereotypes whereby she would normally identify ‘one of those’. 8. Used in antithesis to an earlier occurrence of one. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > [adverb] > one by one eOE (Corpus Cambr. 422) ii. 387 Ac sceall on gebyrd faran an æfter anum. OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius (Vitell.) (1984) i. 34 Ete þonne ænne & ænne on hatum wætere. lOE (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1125 Þa hi ðider coman, ða nam man an & an. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1940) 364 Mon..nimeð an efter an. ?a1300 Fox & Wolf 197 in G. H. McKnight (1913) 33 (MED) Woltou..srift ounderfonge, Tel þine sunnen on and on. a1325 (c1250) (1968) l. 2323 He gan hem ransaken on and on. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 268v Nought alle at oones but oon and oon. a1425 (?a1400) (Harl. 674) (1944) 46 (MED) Serching þeim up bi one & bi one. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich (1932) III. l. 22648 The thre weren left alone, and fulsore they travailled on be one, that they myhten..wynne, To kyng Ryowns baner. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville (Vitell.) 4612 (MED) Cryst Ihesu at the souper..brak & partyd yt to ech on, Wher as they setyn, on by on. a1500 (a1460) (1897–1973) 335 The tayles that he can till vs shaw, By oone and oon. 1548 f. cxl I will examyne you one by one my self. a1578 R. Lindsay (1899) I. 117 The bischoip..pullit out ane be ane or twa be twa quhill he had brokin thame all. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys xi. 179 Recken them vp by one and one. 1607 G. Markham i. 78 So must you vse the rest one after one. 1723 E. Chambers tr. S. Le Clerc I. 34 The Columns must only stand one by one. 1745 E. Young 8 Its little Joys go out by One, and One. 1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in 103 By one, and one, the bolts full easy slide. 1845 W. Wordsworth 32 One after one submitting to their doom. 1866 C. Kingsley I. v. 154 She pledged one by one each of the guests. 1912 J. Stephens viii. 45 There had been five tucks in the dress, but one after one they had to be let out. 1930 A. P. Herbert x. 122 She fished out the knives one by one instead of by handfuls, as usual, and rubbed them singly, as if they were to be exhibited in a glass-case. 1992 19 Dec. (Central Region ed.) 48/5 Ten people invited to a house party on a lonely island by an unknown host are bumped off one by one. OE (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 4 Gif þu wylt uton wyrcean her þreo eardungstowa þe ane, moyse ane & helie ane. c1330 (?a1300) (Auch.) (1973) 2660 Thi child worþ þe noblest man Of al þis world, an for an. a1382 (Bodl. 959) Job xli. 8 His bodi..þrest togidere with scalis, þresting doun þemselue. Oon to oon is ioyned. a1450 Pope Silvester I (Bodl.) in (1889) 82 393 (MED) Þe bole ȝede fram on to on & be-com wel swyþe tame. c1585 R. Browne 5 All Master Cartwrights arguments falleth from one to one, till it come to nothing at all. 1600 W. Shakespeare ii. iii. 63 One foote in sea, and one on shore. View more context for this quotation 1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides (1822) 25 The Corcyreans..were divided into three commands under the three commanders one under one. c1700 J. Addison 28 One Age the Hero, one the Poet breeds. 1736 T. Gray Let. 8 May in (1853) 2 Of Pisa one, and three from Ephyre. 1880 T. Hardy (1966) ix. 80 ‘You must both walk home with me,’ she adroitly said, ‘one on one side, and one on the other’. 1935 G. Greene iii. 149 Presently they divided; one walked one way, one the other, and disappeared. 1975 25 Jan. 1/4 There are three American divisions being sent to the Middle East... One is airmobile, one is airborne and one is armoured. 2002 18 Jan. 73/3 One of our stores was up a bit from the year before, and one was down a bit, but..we're pretty happy. 9. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > fact of being second > [noun] > that which is second > two or more in succession OE 26 Him ðær wirse gelamp, ða heo in helle ham staðeledon, an æfter oðrum, in þæt atole scref. a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 88 in A. S. M. Clark (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 28 I nule leten is loue for oþer neuer on. a1300 (c1275) (1991) 236 On swimmeð bi forn & alle ðe oðre foleȝen. 1484 W. Caxton tr. iv. vi The bocher took him all one after another. 1674 N. Fairfax 100 All stirrings one and other are nothing but gobyes or shiftings of bodies. 1711 J. Addison No. 34. ¶7 Taken away from me by one or other of the Club. 1840 T. Hood 7 Between one and another, I was fairly mobbed into it. 1871 W. Besant & J. Rice i If one catches another's eye. 1922 T. M. Lowry xxix. 483 The metallic ores are usually embedded in one or other of these minerals. 2000 A. Sayle 161 Whenever there's a couple in our circle that splits up Valentina's always there, offering help, offering advice, shuttling between one and the other, [etc.]. the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > that is all or the whole [phrase] > in all or altogether the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > average [phrase] > on average 1436 (Rolls) II. 203 And thus shulde everi lande one with another..life togedre werreles in unité. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre (1913) 57 Women one and other properly to speke ben malicious in her werkes. 1496 in M. Oppenheim (1896) 183 Ij mastes..price oon with another—ixli. 1535 Psalms xlviii. [xlix.] 2 Hye & lowe, riche & poore, one with another. c1553 Certayne Causes Decaye Eng. in (1871) 101 For euery towne and vyllage,—take them one with an other throughout all,—there is one plowe decayed. 1569 R. Grafton II. 278 When all the Scottes were assembled, they were one and other fiftie thousand fightyng men. 1613 T. Jackson i. xxii. §4 Of which the Heathen, one and other, were altogether ignorant. 1652 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio 15 They contribute one year with another eight millions of Florins, for the service of their generall union. a1687 W. Petty (1690) 76 The same..Persons do spend one with another about 18d per diem. a1727 I. Newton (1728) i. 52 Kings reign, one with another, about eighteen or twenty years a-piece. a1774 O. Goldsmith (1776) II. 74 The mercury..in the tube will sink down to about twenty-nine inches and an half, one time with another. 1809 R. Langford 125 35 bales of silk, weighing one with another 2 cwt. 3 qr. 19 lb. 1881 A. Trollope III. l. 92 Her eyes were still fixed before her, and her fingers were still bound in one with another. 1899 28 Oct. 3 Nio, matipo..pigeon wood, etc., struggle one with another in rich profusion for an existence. 1925 F. S. Fitzgerald iv. 75 They were never quite the same ones in physical person, but they were so identical one with another that it inevitably seemed that they had been there before. 1930 11 Feb. 10/1 The Churches have seen that they cannot effectively preach the Gospel of industrial or international peace so long as they are..at war one with another. 1991 C. Mansall v. 95/2 It is not possible to make a full study of historical events without studying the inter-relationships by aspects of the planets one with another. 1845 W. T. Thompson 30 I paid my half dollar to come in here; and I'm gwine to have a ride or a fight, one. 1895 1 373 One seems to be superfluous or else ‘or the other’ is omitted. ‘I will see you or send word, one.’ 1926 E. M. Roberts (1927) viii. 298 It was the road overseer's fault.., or the magistrate's, one. 1938 M. K. Rawlings xv. 169 Now do things go wrong again, you or Buck, one, ride back for me. So long. 1985 19 Aug. 59/1 The driver had to stop or run me over, one. 10. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > [noun] > both the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > an individual thing or person > one of > one of two OE Ælfric (Royal) (1997) xv. 303 Twa lif sind soðlice, þæt an we cunnon, þæt oðer us wæs uncuð ær cristes tocyme. OE Ælfric (Royal) (1997) xviii. 320 We ealle syndon cuman on ðysum life, & ure eard nis na her; ac we synd her swilce weigfærende menn: an cymð, oðer færð; se bið acenned, se oðer forðfærð. OE (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 36 Twegen beoð æt æcere, an bið genumen & oðer bið læfed. lOE (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1129 Þa wære þær coren twa papes. Se an wæs gehaten Petrus... Se oðer het Gregorius. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 81 Þe an is aquenched..and þe oðer is aquenched al buten a gnast. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1940) 325 Bi hu muchel þe an passeð þe oþre. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) 1936 Þe an sloh þene oðren [c1300 Otho Ac þe on sloh þan oþer]. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) 2636 Haueden al þa reuen..iloked tweiene eorles..þe an hehte Gabius, þe oðer Prosenna. c1300 (c1250) (Cambr.) (1966) l. 628 Þat on was maide & þat oþer a mon. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 92 Muchedel of engelond, þe on half al bi weste. 1340 (1866) 119 Þe on ine þe on, and þe oþer ine þe oþer. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 2409 Sai þou for-þi til an and oþer ‘þou art my sister and i þi broþer’. 1414–15 in T. Stapleton (1839) p. cxx Sir Marmaduke Constable thelder, knight,..on thone partie, & Sir Robert Plompton..on thother partie. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius iii. pr. x. 220 Ȝif alle thise thinges..weren membris to felicite, thanne weren thei dyverse, that on fro that othir. a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Lamb.) (1887) i. 279 (MED) Iubiter had twey wyues..Þat on hight Maye, þat oþer Electra. c1450 (c1400) (Huntington) (1942) 117 (MED) Riȝt so schewen þilke holy ȝiftes bi dedes, þat on in on, þat oþer in oþer. 1535 Prov. xxx. B Ye one is called, fetch hither: the other, brynge hither. c1540 (?a1400) 4062 Archisalus was an..And Protheno..þat other. ?1567 sig. Aviv If any scoler had fallen out thone wyth thother: the one woulde call thother Swanborn. 1593 R. Hooker iii. viii. 145 Vnlesse Gods miracles had strengthned both the one and the others doctrine. c1620 A. Hume (1870) i. ii. §4 Distinguished the ane from the other. 1741 S. Richardson III. xxx. 193 A little aukward Piece of One-and-t'other. 1774 O. Goldsmith I. ix. 386 Both the one and the other of us equally injure justice and religion. 1860 W. Collins (new ed.) III. 176 I knew the strength of the heavy lock—I knew the thickness of the nailed oak—I knew the hopelessness of assailing the one and the other by ordinary means. 1959 B. Wootton viii. 267 Differentiation between the one and the other will be called for only insofar as it affects the kind of treatment that is likely to be helpful. b. the one…the other (used anaphorically of each of two persons or things previously mentioned). Sense C. 10b(a) appears to be the earlier and natural use; it is also that observed in French and German: see G. Duvivier Gramm. des Gramm. ed. 1842, I. 410; Grimm at Ander 308. Sense C. 10b(b) is probably suggested by the Latin use of hic and ille, or English this and that.the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > an individual thing or person > one of > one of two > the former or latter of two 1340 (1866) 75 (MED) Þe hare yernþ, þe gryhond hym uolȝeþ; þe on be drede, þe oþer be wylnynge. c1390 (Vernon) (1967) 631 A child..þat þreo feet and þreo honden beere, And anoþer..þet hedde foot or hond forlore... Þe on hedde kuynde ouermeþ, And þat oþer to luyte. a1475 (1889) 9 Þe siluyr wole be dissolued, and not þe gold: þanne ȝe haue þat oon departid fro þe toþir. 1529 T. More iii. i. f.lxixv The hole chyrch had never taken all ye tone sort and reiected all the tother. 1549 H. Latimer 4th Serm. sig. Mvi The one denyed the matter, and the tother confessed it. 1593 R. Hooker iii. viii. 146 In the presence of Festus a Romane, and of King Agrippa a Iewe, S. Paul omitting the one, who neither knew the Iewes religion, nor the bookes..speaketh vnto the other of things foreshewed by Moses & the Prophets. 1599 R. Barnfield in W. Shakespeare et al. (new ed.) sig. B2 If Musicke and sweet Poetrie agree..Then must the loue be great twixt thee and me, Because thou lou'st the one, and I the other. 1625 F. Bacon (new ed.) 260 A Side for the Banquet..and a Side; for the Houshold: The One for Feasts and Triumphs, the Other for Dwelling. 1668 H. More (1713) ii. xx. 151 Betwixt the Isopleuron and Scalenum, not so ordinate a Figure as the one, nor so inordinate as the other. 1690 J. Locke iii. viii. 230 Our simple Ideas have all abstract, as well as concrete Names: The one whereof is..a Substantive, the other an Adjective; as Whiteness, White. 1746 (1748) II. 101 The one sell their Country to get bad Principles, the other to get good ones. 1771 O. Goldsmith I. 349 The death of John and the abdication of Lewis..The one was brought about by accident, and the other by the prudence..of the earl of Pembroke. 1841 D. Brewster ii. i. 132 John and Paul Hainzel, the one a septemvir, and the other the consul or burgomaster. 1901 Mar. 316 She ought to blame the ones, and to punish the others. 1902 XXXI. 518 The influence of the chemical substance is either that of attraction or repulsion, the one being known as positive, the other as negative chemotaxis. 1991 R. Davies xvii. 142 That demands two things—Vision and Capital. The one without the other is unavailing. ?1573 L. Lloyd f. 161 Samson and Hercules..the one yealded his Clob at Dianiras foot, the other committed his strength vnto the beautie of Dalida. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus ii. 6 The women were accounted nothing inferior to the men. For as the one founded the Empires of the Persians and Bactrians, so the other errected the souerainty of the Amazons. 1613 S. Purchas VII. ix. 582 Thus haue the Europæan cattell of horse and kine so encreased in that other world, as they spare not to kill the one for their hides, and the other for their tailes. 1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales 187 Some die, because they feel, and others live because they feel not. So that the one are Fools, because they die not of feeling, and the others because they die of it. 1790 E. Burke 117 The nobility and the clergy, the one by profession, the other by patronage, kept learning in existence. View more context for this quotation 1886 A. M. Fairbairn (ed. 2) iv. iii. 356 Where the exchange and the cathedral stand together, the one for admiration, the other for business. the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > [noun] > mutuality or reciprocity > each other OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz (Corpus Cambr. 191) lxxxiv. 339 Þa amancg þam þe hi him an oðer betwynan spræcon, þa eode se sylfa awyrgeda gast on þæs ceorles geongan sunu. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) 7767 Þe an þe oðerne smat. 1340 (1866) 115 (MED) We ssolle..naȝt hatie ne harmi mid wrong on þe oþer. a1425 (c1395) (Royal) (1850) John xiii. 14 Ȝe schulen waische oon anothers_[L. alter alterius] feet. a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk (Claud.) (1974) 186 These schule neuer on wedde oþer. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry (1971) xlviii. 71 To the ende they may be enamoured one of other. a1500 (?c1450) 113 Be-gonne for to Iape oon to a-nother. 1506 in (1858) 286 So they intersaluted the one the other and departed. 1526 John xiii. f. cxlij Yf ye shall have love won to another. 1526 Rom. xii. 5 Se we beynge many are one body in Christ: and every man..one anothers members. 1526 Rom. xiii. 8 Owe no thinge to eny man; but to love one another [c1384 Wycliffite, E.V. loue to gidre]. 1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 10 in T. Starkey (1878) i. p. lxxxv Wone then labored another touerthrowe. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay xiv. 233 Withont anoying the one the other. 1597 Bp. J. King xiv. 184 We should spare one the others life. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Descr. Germanie i, in 258 By mutuall feare of one the other. 1617 F. Moryson ii. 107 Neither..can we..often heare one from another. 1652 J. French ii. 6 Elements..mutually transmutable into one the other. 1657 R. Ligon 68 The Horses..struck at one another. 1660 tr. I. Barrow i. 7 Things which agree together, are equall one to the other. 1698 H. Wanley in H. Ellis (1843) 257 We never saw one another before. 1711 J. Addison No. 50. ¶4 These two were great Enemies to one another. 1711 E. Budgell No. 161. ⁋3 Cudgel-Players, who were breaking one another's Heads. 1745 P. Thomas 40 They are no more one like another than an Apple is like an Oyster. 1841 R. W. Emerson 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) xii. 302 If history were truly told, if life were nobly spent, it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other. 1885 c. 54 §14 Churches..within four miles of one another. 1900 78 It is..advisable to ‘seed’ the draw..so that the players in each class shall be separated as far as possible one from another. 1938 W. S. Maugham 48 I have none of that engaging come-hitherness that makes people take to one another on first acquaintance. 1960 C. Day Lewis ii. 31 The ponds..were connected one to another by a tiny, overgrown stream. 1984 V. Brome vii. 100 The three men spent no small part of their time analysing one another's dreams. 2003 Jan. 82/2 The idea is that smart devices cooperating with one another function more effectively than huge proprietary communications networks. 12. colloquial. the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > [noun] > approver 1682 J. Bunyan 157 The messenger..said, The Prince to whom you sent me, is such a one for beauty and glory, that whoso sees him must both love and fear him. View more context for this quotation 1807 T. Dibdin i. ii. 20 The Count's as bold a soldier as e'er drew sword, but such a one for women! 1888 C. M. Yonge i. 3 Her daughters..all married, except Lady Mary, who was always such a one for schools and poor people. 1927 C. Asquith 100 Now Mrs. Mingle, unlike Hetty, had been a great one for reading. 1932 N. Royde-Smith 91 She was a one for football. 1948 ‘G. Orwell’ Let. 10 July in (1968) IV. 438 Farm life seems to suit him, though I am pretty sure he is one for machines rather than animals. 1973 J. Thomson vi. 86 He's never been one for the women. I think he's a bit afraid of them. 1995 K. Atkinson (1996) iii. 93 Nell wasn't a great one for compliments, she didn't like people getting above themselves. 1839 C. Dickens ix. 82 Well... You are a one to keep company. 1850 E. C. Gaskell iii She's not one to harden her heart against a mother's sorrow. 1862 G. Meredith xxxv. 67 She is not one Long to endure this torpidly. 1922 J. Joyce ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 346 There was that in her young voice that told that she was not a one to be lightly trifled with. 1935 G. Heyer iii. 22 Constable Dickenson had warned the Inspector that she was not one to talk. 2001 Feb. 31/1 You could see that there was some potential there, but I certainly am not one to count chickens I don't have. the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > impudent person 1880 C. M. Yonge 303 Tittering, and now and then, ‘O Miss Annie, don't, pray!’ ‘O Miss Annie, you are a one!’ 1906 E. Dyson iii. 29 ‘Oh, Mr. Ellis, you are a one!’ she said. 1934 N. Marsh vii. 126 ‘The left-hand print on the stair knob is Mr. Wilde's,’ said Bailey. ‘Is it?’ answered Alleyn without enthusiasm. ‘Aren't you a one?’ 1966 J. B. Priestley viii. 96 You're a bit of a one, aren't you, Dr Salt? 1994 I. Crichton Smith 39 ‘O you are a one,’ say the visitors. ‘Tough as they come.’ V. As substitute for a noun or noun phrase. 13. Following a determiner such as the, this, that, yon, any, each, every, many ( a), other, such ( a), what ( a), what kind of ( a), which, or (in certain phrases) following a, or (from Middle English onwards) following an ordinary adjective (occasionally also a noun used attributively) preceded by any of these or (in plural) alone. OE 127 Æt æghwylcum anum þara hongaþ leohtfæt. a1250 (?a1200) (Nero) (1952) 18 Blescið ou mid euerichon of ðeos gretunges. a1325 (c1250) (1968) l. 185 Ilk kinnes erf and wrim and der..And euerilc-on in kinde good. c1395 G. Chaucer 1552 I haue the mooste stedefast wyf, And eek the mekeste oon that bereth lyf. 1463 in S. Tymms (1850) 41 (MED) To William Sennowe, oon of my short gownys, a good oon wiche as is convenient for hym. a1500 (?c1400) (Cambr.) (1937) 1449 Lordus come, as they hett, Many oon stowte and gay. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay ix. 136 Let vs see what maner a ones they be. 1601 B. Jonson iii. ii. sig. F4v Ne're a one to bee found. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. iv. 130 There's not a one of them but in his house I keepe a Seruant Feed. View more context for this quotation 1641 Ld. Digby 14 A Concentring of all the Royall lynes in his Person, as undisputably as any Mathematicall ones in Euclide. 1665 R. Boyle Disc. iv. iv, in sig. F4 The Author aims at good things, though he does not yet perform great ones. 1736 Bp. J. Butler ii. viii. 286 The three Angles of a Triangle are equal to two right ones. 1741 I. Watts i. v. 87 There is ne'er a one of them would find their own Name in these Characters if they read them. 1752 E. Synge 26 May (1996) 399 He has impos'd a Malt-miln on me for a Wheat one. 1799 A. Young 194 There was a horse-pasture and a sheep one contiguous. 1815 J. Scott xi. 238 Of all the practicabilities, which at present offer themselves to that country, the one that is most [promising] is the stability of the government of the Bourbons. a1864 Ld. Tennyson 14 The nightingale thought, ‘I have sung many songs, But never a one so gay.’ 1868 E. A. Freeman II. App. 604 There is no reason to think that the pilgrimage was other than a self-imposed one. 1875 H. J. S. Maine xii. 342 The examination of new materials and the re-examination of old ones. 1881 F. J. Britten (ed. 4) 67 Drawing out the quarter screws of the balance nearest the fast position..and setting in the ones nearest the slow position. 1911 XXVI. 29/2 The shaping machine does for comparatively small pieces that which the planer does for long ones. 1953 H. Mellanby (ed. 5) xi. 229 Water-snails are similar in appearance to the familiar land ones. 1956 J. C. Powys (1969) i. 12 She waved her hand, the one that wasn't being used to prevent his getting up. 1988 L. Erdrich iii. 34 There was not a one of us who guessed what she hid in that green rag of a dress. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [noun] > of an exaggerated kind a1642 J. Suckling Goblins iv. 43 in (1646) Tut, tut, tut, That's a good one y'faith, not dance? Come, come, strike up. a1643 W. Cartwright (1651) iii. ii. 39 Shap. Sure Caster's Farme is cast away. Cred. A jest! Good troth a good one of a Country one. 1675 C. Cotton 33 Who, I release thee, that's a good one! Release a Rogue, release a pudden. 1716 J. Addison i. i. 4 Frighten'd with a Drum! that's a good one! 1799 J. G. Holman i. i. 9 Lady Jem. Oh, Sir, I shall be proud of the honour. Oakw. The honour! that is a good one. 1813 ‘H. Bull-Us’ v. 26 Now this was a good one, for every body knew [etc.]. 1869 30 Jan. 44 Medical-Attendance, Two-an'-Six! Well, that's a good 'un! Why, I attended on 'im. 1914 Addenda s.v. That's a good 'un (slang), what a lie. 1925 P. G. Wodehouse x. 254 Story? Story?.. I wonder if you've heard the one about the stockbroker and the chorus-girl? 1977 24 Nov. 674/2 ‘Have you heard the one about the Queen Mother?’ We had not heard it, and it was very funny. 1996 F. McCourt (1997) iii. 99 Cleans? Ah, Jasus, that's a good one. Cleans, she says. Is it joking you are? OE (Northumbrian) xvi. 27 Filius..hominis..reddet unicuique secundum opus eius : sunu..monnes..forgeldes eghwelcum anum æfter werc his. a1250 (?a1200) (Nero:Morton) 252 Muchel neod is þet euerichon holde mid oðer, mid bisie bonen. a1350 in G. L. Brook (1968) 37 Mosti ryden by Rybbesdale, wilde wymmen forte wale ant welde wuch ich wolde, founde were þe feyrest on þat euer wes mad of blod ant bon. c1395 G. Chaucer 605 I was a lusty oon. a1400 (a1325) (Trin. Cambr.) 23720 Dame fortune turneþ hir whele anoon Þat casteþ doun mony on. ?c1400 (a1325) (Arms) 17994 (MED) What is he, þat so myȝty oon [a1400 Gött. ane]? a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville (Vitell.) 14767 I sawh an old on ful hydous. 1526 Matt. x. f. xiiij Whosoever shall geve vnto won of these lytle wonnes to drinke, a cuppe of colde water. 1560 Ruth iv. 1 He sayd, Ho, such one [1611 such a one], come, sit downe here. 1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. iii. i How many ones there be That all against poor me Their numerous strength redouble. 1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher iii. sig. F3 This makes not you a Barron, but a bare-one. 1642 in J. Stuart (1843) 31 A foolish litle on within tuell yeiris of age. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius 3 The Consultations of the great Ones and Governours. 1762 L. Sterne v. ii And a chapter it shall have, and a devil of a one, too. 1766 in (1899) 61 The knowing ones were taken in. 1805 W. Wordsworth i. 115 The evil One is left behind. 1857 T. Hughes ii. i. 240 Come along, young 'un. 1866 T. Carlyle 173 And so they gathered together, these speaking ones. 1933 Nov. 256/2 The outstanding characteristic of the pure introvert (and such a one is rare) is reclusiveness and reserve. 1973 M. P. Holt & D. T. E. Marjoram ii. 21 There seems to be evidence for an evolution of intelligence from Homo faber, the tool-user, to Homo sapiens, the wise one. 1997 P. Carey (1998) lxxxviii. 317 You might blow his brains out and not think yourself a bad'un for having done the business. 15. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) 13763 Þa com þer liðen a swiðe ladlic king an. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 1888 in C. Horstmann (1887) 160 For erchebischop ich am, wel ȝe wutez: ase wel ase he is on. c1300 (Laud) (1868) 1982 (MED) He haues a wunde in the side..And he haues on þoru his arum, Þer-of is ful mikel harum. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 11302 (MED) Roberd of caumpedene, þat hosebonde was on, Vor he was a lute clerc, he ssrof hom echon. c1385 G. Chaucer 1814 In my tyme a seruant was I oon. a1400 (a1325) (Gött.) 3265 Til quham to seke a wijf i fare, Lauerd, Þu send me an sum-quar. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) ii. 24 A gode clerk was he one. a1450 (1885) 238 (MED) Loke þat ȝe haue swerdis ilkone, And whoso haues non ȝou by-twene Shall selle his cote and bye hym one. a1500 (?a1425) (Harl.) (1889) 872 (MED) A sory woman was she one. 1611 Rom. ii. 28 For he is not a Iew which is one outwardly;..But he is a Iew which is one inwardly. 1768 G. Washington (1889) II. 241 Went to my Plantation..and dragd for Sturgeon & catchd one. 1838–9 F. A. Kemble (1863) 13 The latter subject is..one sufficiently interesting in itself. 1880 T. Hardy I. ii. 31 But Anne, who always liked his news, pressed him to stay, with a tender motion of her lip as it played on the verge of a solicitous smile without quite lapsing into one. 1913 G. K. Chesterton i. 36 The soul of Bentham (if he had one) went marching on. 1953 M. Traynor 203/1 One, some. Are there any nails about? You'll find ones in the garden-house. 1983 M. Roberts v. i. 158 She begins to recognise this landscape, one she has visited before. the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > a stroke or blow > specific on a person 1607 (?a1425) (Harl. 2124) i. 199 But yet wroken I wil be: haue here one, two, and three.] 1876 ‘M. Twain’ ix You two was scuffling, and he fetched you one with the headboard and you fell flat. 1891 23 Nov. 6/1 I gave him one over the head with my umbrella. 1925 R. J. B. Sellar 165 ‘Did I have one over the regulation number last night?’ ‘Not at all..you were perfectly all right.’ 1928 3 Aug. 7/4 Luton magistrate: What does he mean by ‘one over the eight’? (‘A glass too many’?) 1934 P. G. Wodehouse xi. 126 I..put my feet up, sipping the mixture with carefree enjoyment, rather like Cæsar having one in his tent the day he overcame the Nervii. 1969 in I. Opie & P. Opie viii. 234 We give 'em one down the cake 'ole. 1984 P. Jarratt 171 ‘Having the one’ is a typically Australian understatement. Aussies rarely have one, or even two. VI. As an indefinite pronoun. 16. A person or being whose identity is left undefined; a certain individual or person. Cf. Latin quidam. A following pronoun referring to one is in the 3rd person singular, as ‘One showed himself to his townsmen, who derided him.’ In this sense one has the stress of an independent word, which distinguishes it from sense C. 17a.c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 2051 Ȝho wass ec..Forr þi wiþþ weppmann weddedd. Wiþþ an. þatt wass off hire kinn. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) 614 (MED) Þu art an þet al maht. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) 3511 Seoððen com an [c1300 Otho on] þe leouede wel; he hæhte Famul-penicel. a1325 (c1250) (1968) l. 2047 Ðor woren to ðat prisun dragen On ðat ðe kinges kuppe bed, And on ðe made ðe kinges bred. a1375 (c1350) (1867) 2014 (MED) A tiding teld was hire to-fore of on þat knew þe kostome of þe cuntre of grece. a1425 (a1400) (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 4085 Some clerkes says þat an sal come Þat sal hald þe empire of Rome. 1447 O. Bokenham (Arun.) (1938) 178 The..besy preyere Of oon whom I loue. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer 562 Ryght in the same vois and stevene That useth oon I koude nevene. 1530 J. Palsgrave 249/2 One that spytteth moche, crachart. 1530 J. Palsgrave 249/2 One of affinite, affin. c1537 T. Cranmer Let. 26 May in (1833) I. 186 One named Dale, (whom also I knew in Cambridge). 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane f. xiv It semeth better, to create one of our owne nation that is fit for it. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1622) v. ii. 353 One that lou'd not wisely, but too well. View more context for this quotation 1655 Ld. Orrery II. i. vi. 114 I will accompany my ruine with one's whose losse you will deplore. a1771 T. Gray Agrippina in (1775) 131 One, Who had such liberal power to give. 1785 W. Cowper v. 231 One eminent above the rest..Was chosen leader. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed iii, in I. 41 The first time that I have heard one with a beard..avouch himself a coward. 1836 J. Anstice (hymn) i And feel at heart that One above,..Is working for the best. 1871 J. Morley Carlyle in (1878) 1st Ser. 198 Mr. Carlyle is as one who does not hear the question. 1915 T. Burke 399 He shouted for a half-of-bitter with the solemnity of one who commands that two bottles of dry Monopole be put on the ice. 1955 H. Hodgkinson 46 An Economist is one who accepts a Marxist analysis of society and believes in the inevitable rise of socialism, but [etc.]. 1989 12 May 7 In the guise of one concerned for the welfare of elderly hospitalised in-laws, I accompanied herself to Inverness. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 8279 & an filippe an hæfedd mann Wass arrchelawess broþerr. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) 26 (MED) Maximien luuede an eleusium biuoren monie of his men. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) 14297 He bodede mid worde..þat an Arður sculde ȝete cum Anglen to fulste. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 9197 Þe castel of cary [read caryl] held on william louel. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 409 (MED) Þe kyng ȝaf þe bisshopriche to oon Walter. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) Prol. 319 (MED) Her bokys..wern vn-to Athenes brouȝt..By dillygence of oon Cornelius. 1484 in J. Raine (1890) 42 Ye iijde daye of Decembre, came oon Thomas Watson. ?1521 J. Fisher sig. Aiiv Oon Martyn luther a frere. 1575 in W. Fraser (1885) IV. 200 On Nasbett, barrene of Dyell. c1613 in T. Stapleton (1839) p. xlv An John of Lawe, chapman, sold unto Richard Clerk [etc.]. 1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton v. 127 After whose Death they rebell'd again, and created one Tachus King. 1772 H. Walpole (1859) I. 2 Wilkes published an answer to one Stephens and others, who had attacked him. 1885 53 468/2 He died in 1859, leaving the property in question to one Ann Duncan. 1930 A. Birrell x. 108 He lived on friendly terms with the Vicar, one Mr. Porter. 1978 C. Rayner iv. 41 Carbolic..is a substance devised from coal tar and developed in Manchester by one Calvert, who used it to disinfect sewage in Carlisle. 2001 29 Mar. i. 3/4 The South Bridge vaults—which are reputedly haunted by one Mr Boots. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 5864 As me him drinke tok on was prest ynou & þoru is wombe smot a knif. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John xviii. 39 It is a custom to ȝou, that I delyuer oon to ȝou in pask. c1425 (1923) 23 (MED) A Childe blynde from his birth, oon ledynge hym, Fadyr and modyr folowyng, was browght to the solempnyte of the glorious Apostle. c1500 (?a1475) (1896) 542 Oon to Pluto roode And told hym how Eolus was in hys daungere. c1540 (?a1400) 8590 ‘Achilles, the choise kyng’, oon chaunsit to say. 1548 f. xxvj Then one brought hym a cup with wine. 1607 E. Topsell 185 A mad Dog had suddenlie tore in peeces a garment about ones body. a1649 J. Winthrop (1853) I. 210 This month one went by land to Connecticut, and returned safe. 1759 R. Brown 118 One in the Hundreds of Essex made a great improvement. 1877 K. S. Macquoid IV. 350/1 George, lad, ther's yan at t'deear. a1903 C. Ellis in (1903) IV. 350/1 [Leicester] There was one as used to live this way. 17. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 1023 (MED) Of an [a1400 Gött. ane; a1400 Trin. Cambr. oon] qua siþen ete at þe last, he suld in eild be ai stedfast. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer (1987) ii. 892 They wenen all be love, if oon be hoot. a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk (Claud.) (1974) 71 (MED) Whenne on hath done a synne, Loke he lye not longe there-ynne. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. (Caxton) (1877) lf. 29 He herde aman say that one was surer in keping his tunge, than in moche speking, for in moche langage one may lightly erre. 1530 J. Palsgrave 586/1 I holde, as a sycknesse holdeth one. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay iv. 50 It is one thing to change ones selfe, & another thing to will that there should be a chaunge. 1597 W. Shakespeare i. iv. 49 Why Romeo may one aske? View more context for this quotation 1607 S. Hieron Abridgem. of Gospell in (1620) I. 156 When on climeth a high tower or hill, the higher he doth mount, the lesse doth euery thing appeare which is below him. 1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault 355 If one propose any other end unto himself. a1665 K. Digby (1827) 239 To whom one giveth love, one giveth also their will and their whole self. a1665 K. Digby (1827) 255 Hereby one may take to themselves a lesson. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie ii. iv. xxix. 38 I break them off immediately, which is done with ease..in drawing them towards one. 1747 E. Synge 19 Sept. (1996) 89 One ought always to endeavour to their utmost to do what they promise. 1795 W. Paley (ed. 3) II. ii. iv. 120 It is not what one would have expected. 1834 L. Ritchie 192 One's brothers and sisters are a part of one's self. 1865 M. Arnold Pref. p. viii One cannot be always studying one's own works. 1886 W. W. Story 31 One must do what his own nature prescribes. 1931 N. Mitford vi. 80 One is not exactly encouraged to use one's brain over here, you know. 1971 Fall 29/2 Rehabilitation allows one to upgrade his housing without moving to another unit and without physically changing his location. 2000 26 Apr. 16/1 It gives one a great thrill to harvest (as we farmers say) one's own produce. the mind > language > speech > narration > direct speech > [noun] > the speaker 1728 C. Cibber ii. i. 26 One has really been stufft up in a Coach so long, that—Pray Madam—could not I get a little Powder for my Hair? 1844 6 52/2 I mean not to include the real ills, but to speak of the numberless trifles that irritate and annoy one. 1905 H. A. Vachell v. 92 The Caterpillar..murmured—‘One doesn't pretend to be a Christian, but as a gentleman one accepts a bit of bad luck without gnashing one's teeth.’ 1959 E. H. Clements ii. 19 ‘Do you often have your fan-mail in person?’..‘Not often. One isn't in the telephone book.’ 1982 F. Johnson 9 How to persuade the Telegraph that..one was a man of immense culture? (Saying ‘one’ when you mean ‘I’ would do for a start, I decided.) Phrases P1. In adjective use. the world > relative properties > number > plurality > fewness > [adjective] > small in number a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) 6080 Ȝyf an husbond chyldryn haue, One or two, mayden or knaue. 1526 xxxv. sig. Ciiv/2 Make pylles with iuce of rue and sawge and yf nede be dyssolue one or two in iuce of rue. 1535 1 Kings xvii. 12 I haue gathered up one or two stickes. 1691 J. Ray Let. to Aubrey 22 Oct. in J. Walker (1813) II. 159 You are not ignorant how Mr. Boyle hath been κωμωδουμενος for some new-coyned words, such as ignore and opine... I'll name you one or two [i.e. in Aubrey's MS. Hist. of Wilts], to apricate, suscepted, vesicate, continently put as opposite to incontinently. 1748 S. Richardson IV. xxxix. 223 For the sake of better managing one of two Executorships. 1802 R. Canning in (1844) IV. 117 I will..send you..one or two trifling alterations more, and will then state to you the statable reasons for this last change. 1877 ‘H. A. Page’ II. xviii. 43 On one or two points the writer was not wholly at one with him. 1904 P. F. Warner xiii. 246 The ball was always turning, and one or two deliveries kicked up rather awkwardly. 1963 24 Jan. 6/2 It was not enough to put one or two council houses near the slag heaps. 1990 May 5/2 I've been in the habit of clipping one or two articles from each issue for topical files. 2001 11 Mar. (Sport section) 6/6 As long as the team are playing well, I will get chances to score. If you are lucky you stick one or two away. the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [noun] > the same 1531 tr. E. Fox et al. vii. f. 112 One and the same selfe man may be bothe a preest and a maryed man. 1551 T. Wilson sig. Siiijv Out of one and the same floure the Bee sucketh hony, and the spider draweth poison. 1588 T. Hariot sig. C3(1) In some places of the countrey notwithstanding they haue two haruests..out of one and the same ground. 1650 T. Hobbes xii. (R.) When the wills of many concur to one and the same action and effect; this concourse of their wills is called consent. 1659 H. More ii. i. 113 Perception being really one and the same thing with Reaction of Matter one part against another. 1719 D. Waterland xxv. 387 The Father is Creator, but the Son a Creature; and therefore they cannot be One and the same Hypostasis. 1799 1 170 The different earths..are modifications of one and the same simple substance, the basis of earth. a1806 S. Horsley (1816) II. xxvi. 304 A sameness of the terms..would be an argument for assigning one and the same meaning to the promises. 1869 21 365 This modification has..the effect of comprising in one and the same network the two lines from Paris to Lyons. 1941 H. L. Mencken (1942) xvi. 245 His father had been, at one and the same time, a Confederate general, a French nobleman, and a graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge. 1976 G. Butler iv. 117 I wonder..whether the King and Mr Koenig could be one and the same person? 2001 16 July 24/3 The two groups are not one and the same..but their issues often overlap. the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [adjective] the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [noun] > the same thing or person 1531 tr. E. Fox et al. vi. f. 117v One selfe same prohibicion of the lawe of god. 1536 J. Gwynneth xxiii. sig. r.viiv The wordes of saynt Austeyn were freshe in the mynde of the reader, he wyst well ynough, it wolde then be sone perceyued..for very one and the selfe same in dede. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay ii. 21 One selfesame Creature, which at one selfesame instant, by one selfesame course, and with one selfesame qualitie of heate, doth all the sayd things. 1611 1 Cor. vii. 11 All these worketh that one and the selfe same spirit [Wyclif one and the same, Tindale, etc., the silfe same]. 1630 tr. G. Botero (rev. ed.) 93 Having in one selfe-same field..both Corne, Vines, and Fruit-trees. 1700 T. Staynoe xiv. 326 He should proclaim and conceal his Wickedness at one and the self-same time. 1787 G. McCalman 61 Tho' individuals were privileged, yet their interest, together with the nature of things, would soon induce them to unite in one and the selfsame partnership. 1864 18 Apr. There came but one self-same verdict. 1878 10 246 Two languages, so far removed from one another,..hit upon one and the self-same new formation in the earliest period known to us. 1918 15 458 Two contradictory hypotheses can not both be true,..but each may well enough be applicable to one and the self-same world. 1993 29 Mar. 14/3 To talk of the 1960s which formed us as if it were one selfsame event is misleading. the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [noun] the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > only one > [adjective] > one and only 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More sig. Gi The one and onlye waye to the wealthe of a communaltye. 1608 T. Middleton iv. sig. F4v My chayne, my chayne, my chayne, my one and only chayne. 1678 R. Cudworth tr. St. Clement of Alexandria in i. iv. 279 The one and only God (saith Clemens) is worshipped by the Greeks Paganically, by the Jews Judaically, but by Us newly and Spiritually. 1822 C. O'Conor I. p. vi The thitherto one and only language. 1863 C. Kingsley iv. 169 The Chancellor of the Exchequer..jumped at the notion; for he saw in it the one and only plan for abolishing Schedule D. 1883 R. Broughton III. iv. vi. 287 Had the letter been discovered, there would have been the one and only refuge left her. 1906 E. Dyson i. 4 She's er little boshter..'n' I'm 'er one 'n' only. 1933 J. D. Carr iv. 64 He'd met some girl at a dance who was the absolute One and Only. 1961 13 May 11/3 Artur Schnabel thought that such a one-and-only performance was obtainable. 1966 Sept. 64 A coat so versatile it could be the treasured one-and-only in your life. 1975 J. McClure xii. 159 She'd been with the family since their one-and-only was five. 1987 M. Wesley (1988) xxx. 162 Bit short of interpreters at the moment, actually; our one and only is down with flu. 1997 16 Feb. xii. 12/2 AWD is activated only when needed so fuel economy is respectable with the one-and-only 3.8-liter, V-6. 1766 ii. 214/2 The sacred history, besides the many civil facts which it contains, has many of a miraculous nature. Of these our freethinker will allow only the first in evidence; and then bravely attacks his adversary, who has now one hand tied behind him. 1803 in Oct. 220 The chief consul..affirmed he would fight us with one hand tied behind him. 1873 D. Urquhart 2 At the commencement of hostilities I said that France was going to war with one arm tied behind her back. 1919 1 June 341/3 After a few years' experience I could tell you..with one hand behind my back..the proportions to use. 1956 M. Dickens xiii. 277 Nothing to it. I can run this pub with one hand tied behind my back. 1980 (Nexis) 2 June 30 The President..was defeating Kennedy with one arm tied behind him—by winning while having to stay away from campaigning because of crises abroad. 2000 Jan. 5/1 The current legislation leaves the conservation agencies fighting with one hand tied behind their back. 2003 C. Phillips (2004) 204 Her father..muttering..about forking out money for something that his wife could have whipped up with one hand tied behind her back. 1799 J. Sansom Let. 2 May in (1812) 7 130 Always keep one hand for the owners, and one for yourself. 1902 B. Lubbock 58 The old rule on a yard is, ‘one hand for yourself and one for the ship’, which means, hold on with one hand and work with the other. 1924 R. Clements iii. 50 One hand for yourself and one for the owners. 1938 F. A. Worsley 119 One hand for the Queen and one for yerself. 1968 L. Morton i. 10 I did not know then the old adage ‘one hand for oneself and one hand for the company’. 2002 (Nexis) 19 May I remembered the words of my dad, who was 27 years in the Royal Navy: ‘One hand for yourself, one hand for the navy.’ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [phrase] > one person one vote 1780 J. Cartwright 5 One man shall have one vote.] 1884 A. Paul ii. 19 ‘One man, one vote’, a cry which may have had a novel sound to some in 1883 was one of Cartwright's political principles. 1889 W. E. Gladstone in 13 June 7/2 The important measure which is briefly designated under the well-known phrase—one man, one vote. 1891 7 Mar. 330/1 Mr. Stansfeld brought forward his resolution for an amendment of the registration law, and the adoption of the principle of ‘one man one vote’. 1907 H. Lawson in W. Murdoch & H. Drake-Brockman (1951) 73 The One-Man-One-Vote Bill was passed. 1964 15 July 74/3 To ensure that one-man-one-vote democracy is swiftly introduced. 1971 ‘G. Black’ ii. 32 The government..had declared martial law, suspending the constitution... ‘So much for one man, one vote,’ Russell said. 1975 D. Bagley xiii. 115 Not so democratic as to be a one man, one vote system. 2000 M. Isserman vi. 118 The Court ordered that American electoral districts..be reapportioned according to the principle of equal legislative representation for equal numbers of people (more popularly known as ‘one man, one vote’). 1838 J. F. Cooper I. x. 154 When a man has fully made up his mind to retreat, he blusters the most; and one step forward often promises two backward. 1919 A. Rhys Williams et al. 37 His [sc. Lenin's] own original works may be numbered by the score. The following are important:..‘One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward: The Crisis in Our Party’. 1950 21 466 But it is one step forwards and two steps backwards, for Tobias recognizes in his alloy of feelings and attitudes a contempt for himself which undermines his sense of social security. 1965 20 Mar. 10/6 If in terms of approaching Hanoi it has been a case of one step forward and two steps back, there is little doubting..the American determination to press on with a ‘graduated programme’. 1997 19 Feb. (Sport section) 5/2 But things have gone a bit wonky. We seem to take one step forward and two back. 1905 June 436 (advt.) One Size Fits All Devices... Powerful Locking Devices in great variety, for all Composing and Pressroom needs. 1937 4 June 27/2 (caption) The new one-size-fits-all bathing suits are worn by Alice La Mont (the press agent says rotund) film comedienne, and Dorothea Kant, petite film actress. 1959 1 Nov. 94/1 (advt.) The original ‘one-size-fits-all’ terry after-bath robe. 1970 1 Mar. e12/4 Most clergymen insist on a one-size-fits-all service, but there are some who will even help supply ideas if you're looking for something individual. 1976 (Nexis) 16 Feb. 74 Wearing ‘one size fits all’ socks or panty hose can cause corns, blisters or even more serious foot problems. 1981 C. L. Beale in S. M. Mazie & D. L. Brown 54 Procrustean policy beds, of the one-size-fits-all variety, are all too common in public affairs. 1995 15 Apr. 31/2 The ever-widening Gazza struggled to fit in to the ‘one-size-fits-all’ regulation shirt of the time. 1998 (Univ. Texas) Sept. 19 Traditional Texan baseball cap... Adjustable back strap. One size fits all. 27.95. 2008 M. Grey et al. (2010) p. xxvi A one size fits all approach that is paradoxical in a profession which values and extols diversity. P2. In pronoun use, after a preposition. b. in onethe world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > in/into one place, company, or mass [phrase] OE (Northumbrian) xxii. 34 Pharisaei autem..conuenerunt in unum : ða ældomenn uutedlice..cuomon uel gesomnadon In an. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 1552 Þu sammnesst all þin mele inn an. & cnedesst itt to geddre. c1225 (?c1200) (1973) 1513 Wit beoð ifestnet & iteiet in an. c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring (1891) lxx. 11 (MED) Hij þat kept my soule made conseil in on [L. in unum]. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) iii. 3835 (MED) Now hast þou made a departisioun Of vs þat werne by hool affeccioun I-knet in oon. 1526 John xi. f. cxxxviijv He shulde gadder to gedder in won the children of God. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus i. 29 Legions being assembled in one. 1649 H. Thorndike 66 But, when Justin Martyr says expresly, Apol. II. that, in his time, those out of the Country, and those in the City, assembled in one, farre was it from distinguishing setled Congregations under the Apostles. 1671 R. McWard iv. 193 The Christian Church, gathered in one, out of all and every Nation. 1712 J. Weston Observ. & Explic. Proper 12 in There is no Occasion or Necessity for joining two or more of these Nouns or Verbs together in one, because the Speaker is necessarily obliged to..draw his Breath after every one of them. 1875 J. H. Newman Let. 29 Oct. in J. Keble (1877) p. xiv I am unable to separate the writer from the man, or to view him as poet, critic, scholar, reviewer, editor, or divine, except as those aspects of him are gathered up in one in his own proper personality. the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > continuously or uninterruptedly [phrase] c1275 (?c1250) (Calig.) (1935) 356 Ȝif me hit halt eure forþ inon. c1385 G. Chaucer 1771 His herte had compassioun Of wommen, for they wepten euere in oon. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) i. 1795 (MED) Evere in on sche spak and preide. c1425 (c1400) 2791 Aȝeyn the qwene he ȝode..And loked on hir euere in on. c1450 in (1911) 26 162 (MED) Yit haue in remembraunce My long seruyse abydyng euer in one Wyth-outyn chaunge. the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [adverb] > in the same state or condition c1300 St. John Baptist (Laud) 36 in C. Horstmann (1887) 30 He heold him faste in his folie: and bi-lefde euere in on. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 1429 (MED) Euer stod þai [sc. three wands] still in an, Wit-outen wax, wit-outen wain. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 4278 Ai sco fand ioseph in ane. the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > in agreement or harmony (with) [phrase] a1400 (a1325) (Trin. Cambr.) 20136 Boþe her willes was in one. 1509 S. Hawes (1845) xxxviii. 199 We answered bothe our hertes were in one. 1589 i. sig. A.iij When the hier powers is in one, Men vpon earth will flye contention. 1602 W. Watson 139 Why doth not your words and deedes agree in one? 1715 tr. Thomas à Kempis iv. ix. 233 Voices all in one agree. the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adverb] 1616 T. Roe Let. 24 Nov. in (1899) II. 345 You may dischardge and lade in one, and depart in excellent season for England. 1622 F. Bacon 48 Whereby he should in one both generally abroad veil over his ambition and win the reputation of just proceedings. the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > combined [phrase] 1619 Visct. Doncaster Let. in S. R. Gardiner (1865) 1st Ser. 164 Finding him as I thinke..teachered by some higher directions (whether it be of Rome or Spayne or both in one). 1684 No. 1991/4 Another Watch a Spelter Box and Case all in one..with a round Pillar going 18 hours. 1793 J. Bentham 11 It is robbery, enslavement, insult, homicide, all in one. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato (ed. 2) III. 441 The same persons..are husbandmen, tradesmen, warriors, all in one. 1890 Oct. 329 In medieval times Bristol was Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham in one. 1909 R. Dunstan x. 155 A Canon ‘per Recte et Retro’ is one that may be sung forwards and backwards at the same time, producing two parts in one. 1986 May 136 Fogarty have conjured up a clever idea—a Spring/Autumn quilt, a Summer quilt and a Winter quilt all in one. the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > achieve success (of persons) > succeed at the first attempt 1900 Aug. 283/2 ‘Let me see, what cousins? If his father—’ ‘Was Jack's son, what relation was Jack to John. There I've got it in one, Major.’ 1928 D. L. Sayers xii. 141 ‘I say we shall find a long scratch on the paint,’ said Parker... ‘Holed it in one, Charles.’ 1938 J. Parish 11 As a matter of fact, that's just what I am. You've got there in one. 1972 W. Garner xv. 106 Got it in one, old son. 1986 C. Phillips 115 Bertram emptied the bottle in one. 2002 C. Newland iii. 28 When he handed me mine, I gulped it down in one. ‘Thirsty’, the butter-coloured girl noted. the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [adverb] c1385 G. Chaucer 1781 That lord hath litel of discrecioun That..weyeth pryde and humblesse after oon. c1387–95 G. Chaucer 341 His breed, his ale was alweys after oon. a1425 (Lansd.) (1902) 6 (MED) Alle sal be louid eftir an in haly religiun. a1450 (Vesp.) (1902) 1485 (MED) By þer endenturs may þai wit, What thynges efter on er left To hir þat sal resaf þam eft. a1500 tr. La Belle Dame sans Mercy (Cambr.) 161 in F. J. Furnivall (1903) 86 (MED) Vnto hem all, his chere was after on: Now here, now there, as fill by auenture. 1533 T. More iv. p. cxxxix And where as god dothe for this poynt bothe for electes and reprobates all after one. the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > in/into one place, company, or mass [phrase] 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger I. i. vii. sig. D.vj/1 To ioyne or bring into one. 1739 D. Hume II. iii. 295 Since the dispers'd passions are collected into one, a superior degree of that passion. 1853 E. C. Gaskell x Men will be men. Every mother's son of them wishes to be considered Samson and Solomon rolled into one. 1864 J. H. Newman 180 I had collected into one all the strong things. 1978 Feb. 94/1 Social and political historian, literary critic and man of the theatre rolled into one. 2002 1 Mar. i. 15/8 Life coaches—a new breed of counsellor, motivator and consultant rolled into one. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > [adverb] > one by one lOE (Laud) anno 1095 Swiðe mænifealdlice steorran of heofenan feollan, naht be anan oððe twam, ac swa þiclice þæt hit nan mann ateallan ne mihte.] 1607 G. Markham i. 35 By turning mares single, and by one vnto the Horse. P3. Collocated with another pronoun. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > the generality > each and every one thing a1400 (a1325) (Fairf. 14) 2907 (MED) Þaire welþe ham sloghe baþ an and al. a1425 (a1325) (Galba) 28036 I say noght þis by ane ne all. ?a1475 (1922) 36 (MED) I warne ȝow childeryn, on and all, Drede oure lord god. a1513 W. Dunbar (1998) I. 91 Thai were bot lesingis all and ane. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1959) ix. viii. 16 With huge clamoure followyng ane and all. 1578 J. Rolland 32 Euin sa we suld be all and ane To our parents obedient. 1647 N. Ward 47 He hath sounded an Alarm to all the susque deque pell-mells, one and alls, now harrassing sundry parts of Christendome. 1788 J. Wesley (1872) VII. 203 The Methodists..were one and all determined to be Bible-Christians. 1852 H. W. Dulcken tr. I. L. Pfeiffer xix. 293 One and all eat with their fingers. 1877 2 Oct. 2/5 Towards this great end it behoves us one and all to work. 1928 E. Paul & C. Paul tr. K. Marx xiii. 403 An organised system of working machines which are one and all set in motion by the transmitting mechanism from a central automaton, constitutes the fully developed form of machinofacture. 1957 A. N. Prior 133 There are some modal logicians who feel that statements containing sequences of modal operators like MM, MML,..are one and all ‘meaningless’. 1992 Aug. 48/1 The stuff was meant to be drunk hot, and was well known to one and all for its ability to warm the cockles of the heart. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > in general [phrase] > in general terms or not in detail > as a whole ?1544 J. Heywood sig. B.i Great pynnes must she haue one or other Yf she lese one she wyll fynde an other. 1589 R. Lane in R. Hakluyt iii. 740 I took a resolution..to enter presently so farre into the Riuer with two double whirries, and fourtie persons one or other. 1705 C. Cibber v. vi. 66 I declare 'twas a Design, one or other—the best Carry'd on, that ever I knew in my life. 1775 S. J. Pratt (1783) I. Sect. viii. 24 This it is which makes him [the dog], one or another, the most entertaining animal that ever crossed the Atlantic. 1796 F. Burney I. i. ii. 34 Indiana has one or other the prettiest face I ever saw. P4. With adverbial complement. See also one-down adv., one-off adj. and n., one-up adv. and adj.the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > a stroke or blow > specific on a person 1891 Aug. 110 That's right, Captain Kitty!.. Land him [sc. the Devil] one in the eye. 1900 G. R. Sims iv. 25 It was, in the outdoor language of Exeter Street, ‘one in the eye’ for her aunt. 1951 P. Brickhill xix. 244 A certain..personality at Bomber Command..when he heard the Tirpitz was sunk, [said] ‘That's one in the eye for the Nautics!’ 1993 Winter 54/1 As some would see it, a picture for Manchester is one in the eye for London. the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > [adjective] > one-to-one, etc. 1908 17 589 He certainly does not try to match up his judgments with outer reality, to find a one-for-one correspondence between them. 1999 16 July 32/1 BP Amoco..said it would..launch a one-for-one share split. the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > [adjective] > one-to-one, etc. 1916 22 Sept. 416/1 There are in this process of development seven special sorts of correlations... The first sort comprises one-to-many, many-to-one, and one-to-one correlations. 1959 A. G. Oettinger in R. A. Brower 257 Frequent one-to-many correspondences between Russian and English words create..one of the most perplexing problems of automatic translation. 2000 91 833/2 Physicalism is saved only if this one-to-many relation of the mental to the physical is asymmetrical—in other words, only if there is a one-to-one relationship of the physical to the mental, only if the same neurophysiological state is and can be realized as one and only one distinct psychological state. the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > worthy of notice 1922 H. C. Witwer (1923) 170 Gents, this was one for the book! 1946 21 69/1 If a bettor asked unusually high odds, the bookie might comment, ‘Here's one for the end book’, implying that no one but a green newcomer..would accept those odds. 1955 No. 24. 179 There is always someone with one for the end book, or a story that is hard to believe. 1997 20 Aug. 58/3 Bozulich remains a riveting frontwoman and a helluva songwriter, and this show should be one for the books. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [adjective] > system of bidding > types of bidding society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > call > bidding > bid > other types of bid 1931 24 Mar. 19/5 The three chief conventions recognized are:—(1) The One over One Forcing bid; (2) the Approach Forcing System of bidding; (3) the Two Club bid. 1959 19 Mar. 530/1 Many completely minimum hands..could be hamstrung by a simple one-over-one response on the first round. 1991 G. Thompson 74 One over one response, a sequence such as 1♥—1♢, where responder bids at the one level. the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > a drink of > before departure 1939 31 Mar. 8/4 Propaganda should be employed to train and fortify public opinion in the condemnation of persons who drink before driving—above all to discourage the practice of ‘one for the road’. 1943 J. Mercer (title of song) One for my baby (and one more for the road). 1972 J. Blackburn xi. 119 ‘What about giving me one for the road, my dear.’ He gulped down the remains of the sherry. 2002 26 Sept. (Finance section) 26 Barman! Just the one for the road. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > only one > [adjective] 1954 51 91 Non-recurrent phenomena are one-of-a-kind and uniquely occurrent: one Roman Empire, one Napoleon [etc.]. 1963 1 June 72 Among the one-of-a-kind mannerly materials are Paisley cotton prints. 1975 21 Apr. 17/3 Children of Paradise (1945)—A one-of-a-kind film. 1977 S. Marshak & M. Culbreath (1985) xxii. 154 And she was herself—one of a kind. Outside the phalanx. 1988 M. Atwood (1989) viii. 43 I think of myself standing there in the gallery, surrounded by one-of-a-kind boutique-wear and real pearls. society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [adjective] > allowing address > particular addresses 1959 J. W. Carr in E. M. Grabbe et al. II. ii. 58 In the one-plus-one addressing procedure, each instruction has a basic single-address format, but also includes a second address to be used to designate the location of the next instruction to be performed. 1969 P. B. Jordain 351 The one-plus-one address instruction has only the power (or flexibility) of a one-address instruction, because only one operand reference is included. 2000 S. Lavington iv. 45 The 650 had a single accumulator, and a (1+1)-address instruction format. P5. With a verb. a. the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (intransitive)] the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery, superiority, or advantage [verb (intransitive)] 1856 22 Mar. 231/3 Some of our Wall Street magnates would doubtless please the young gentleman if they would go ‘one better’ in this line. 1878 15 660/2 I'll do better than the church. I'll see 'em that and go one better. 1886 J. McCarthy & R. C. Praed I. vii. 142 Our fellows wanted to be popular. These fellows..want to go one better. 1892 7 May 646/1 To use a slang phrase borrowed from the card-table, she has ‘seen Mr. D. and gone one better’. 1928 D. H. Lawrence in E. Rickword v. 67 They worship their own class, but they pretend to go one better and sneer at it. 1973 20 Sept. 677/1 Mr. Gaye has gone one better than his competitors. 2007 B. Warner xxi. 209 When just having short hair didn't seem radical enough, the hardcore punks went one better and shaved it all off. 1858 17 Nov. The owner of the Humming Bird will go them one better. 1874 17 Feb. 1556/1 The Senator from North Carolina..proposes an increase of 46 millions of banking circulation. The Senator from Pennsylvania..goes him better, and proposes an unlimited increase. 1953 W. Stevens 21 Dec. (1967) 805 The weather was constantly going me one better. 1960 W. H. Whyte 34 Some European critics of America have gone them one better. 2010 26 July 61/3 St. Francis, unburdened by the weight of being the Messiah, went Jesus one better and extended his gospel to all creation. 1990 A. Swift (Mersey TV Transmission script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 818. 11 Look just do one, will y' Sinbad! 1995 N. Blincoe xxvi. 198 In the end, she made him so nervous that he did one. He ran out on her while she was sleeping. 2000 20 Mar. 21/1 We leg it back, grab the swag and do one. 1990 P. Matthiessen (1991) 83 We done our best to work around him, but he went off on one of his tirades, quoting Detockveel and Laffyett and some other old Frog fellers that could tell us boys a thing or two about America.] 1993 R. Lowe & W. Shaw 47 You get the odd argument. Last week I was going off on one because I happened to be the only one with a car on here and everybody borrows my car. 1998 Nov. 98/4 He just went off on one going, ‘You're bang out of order you are, getting up there and pretending to be a Gooner.’ I honestly thought he was going to twat me. 2000 M. Barrowcliffe x. 260 I didn't want her to ask anything about me because that would have meant I would risk going off on one, not letting her get a word in edgeways. Compounds C1. eOE tr. Orosius (BL Add.) (1980) ii. vii. 50 Æfter þæm þe Romeburg getimbred wæs iii hunde wintra & an. OE Ælfric (Claud.) xii. 24 Ðæt is ealra cyninga an & ðritig. OE Byrhtferð (Ashm.) (1995) iii. iii. 190 xxi uigessimus primus, an and twentig. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) 4757 Heo wuneden inne Winchæstre an and twenti wikene. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 2219 in C. Horstmann (1887) 170 He deide endleue houndret ȝer and seuenti and on After þat ore swete louerd of is moder nam flesch and bon. c1300 (Laud) (1868) 1928 (MED) Hauelok hauede..Of hise slawen sixti and on Sergaunz, þe beste þat mithen gon. a1382 (Bodl. 959) Josh. xii. 24 Þese been þe kyngys of þe lond..alle þe kyngys oon & þritty. c1390 G. Chaucer 4385 The brighte sonne..in the signe of Taurus hadde yronne Twenty degrees and oon and som what moore. a1475 (?a1350) (Harl.) (1927) 895b (MED) Sir Sennes of Cypres also anon Bryngeth sheppis twenty and on. ?a1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Kings of Eng. (Harl. 2261) in J. R. Lumby (1882) VIII. 518–21 (MED) Thys Wylyam dowke of Normandye..bare hys crowne full one and xx yere. 1562 J. Heywood Y iij b One and forty men, among one and fiftie, Would flee one and thirtie, to flee one vnthriftie. 1567 in F. J. Baigent (1891) 172 Any personne..beinge of the full age of twenty and one yeares, of saulf memorie. 1617 F. Moryson iii. 217 The Pupill..is held under daies or in minority till he be twenty one yeres old. 1640 T. Fuller 11 Those many Kings mentioned in the old Testament, thirty and one in the little land of Canaan. 1657 T. Hobbes Στιγμαι in (1845) VII. 378 Your first forty-one propositions are undemonstrated. 1725 D. Defoe ii. 155 They were One and Twenty Days in this Traverse. 1776 A. Smith I. i. xi. 289 One and twenty shillings the tod may be reckoned a good price for very good English wool. View more context for this quotation 1840 E. Wilson viii. 387 There are thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves. 1886 T. Hardy II. xi. 146 Sing me that funny song about high-heeled shoon and siller tags, and the one-and-forty wooers. 1960 J. Barth i. iv. 40 One-and-twenty is not child, but 'twere a passing good wife, were't not? 2001 3 Aug. 13/3 The First Liquidation and Distribution Account in the above mentioned Estate will lie for inspection..for a period of twenty one days. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > [noun] the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > only one > [noun] eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory (Hatton) (1871) liii. 419 Be ðæm is swiðe we[l] gecweden ðurh ðone psalmsceop on ðæm an & ðritigoðan psalme. OE (Claud.) xii. 18 Oð ðone an & twentigan dæg þæs ylcan monðes. lOE (Laud) anno 1107 Wæs þæt an and fowertigeðe gear þæs þe Francan þyses landes weoldan. a1425 (?a1400) (Harl. 674) (1944) 52 (heading) (MED) Here bygynneþ þe on & twenty chapitre. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in 396 The one and thirtieth Chapter endeth the exposition. 1584 R. Scot xv. xiii. 416 This psalme..being the fiftie one psalme. 1611 Gen. viii. 13 In the sixe hundredth and one yeere, in the first moneth. View more context for this quotation 1625–6 S. Purchas II. 1417 The twentie one day [we departed] from Bullomash. 1649 O. Cromwell (1871) II. 227 Upon Thursday the One-and-thirtieth, I possessed a Castle called Kilkenny. 1806 T. S. Surr I. vii. 136 Edward had attained his one-and-twentieth year. 1843 A. Bethune 12 A delicate..girl, in her twentieth, or one-and-twentieth year. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in 4 Ere he touch'd his one-and-twentieth May. a1970 C. Olson (1983) 151 Of the planting the one and twentieth church (of Christ) at a town called Gloster. C2. OE tr. Orosius (Tiber.) (1980) i. viii. 27 For ðon þe Asyrie hæfdon lx wintra & an hund & an þusend under fiftiga cyninga rice. c1300 (?c1225) (Cambr.) (1901) 616 (MED) He sloȝ þer on haste On hundred bi þe laste. a1400 (a1325) (Trin. Cambr.) (1887) App. XX. 874 Me scholde ȝiue him anon On hundred schillinges. 1485 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 384 in (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 To lesse and forfayte one hundred shillinges. 1532 in W. Fraser (1885) IV. 140 The somme of oone thousand poundis sterling. 1548 f. cl Amountyng to the some of one thousand poundes. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus xi. 46 In his Army were thirty two thousand footemen, foure thousand and fiue hundred horsemen, and one hundreth, fourescore, and two shippes. 1642 D. Rogers 10 Full one thousand six hundred years and odde. 1682 (1905) 17 One dozen scrubleing cards. c1711 in H. M. Burt (1899) II. 39 One Dozen of Jack Knives: at six pence the Knife. 1776 E. Gibbon I. i. 12 The whole body of legionary infantry amounted to six thousand one hundred men. 1844 C. MacFarlane I. 54 Frithric..had maintained one score and ten loaf-eaters or serving men in his glorious abbey. 1896 30 Nov. 6/6 There was a keen competition for the three one-hundred guinea cups. 1933 21 Oct. 6/8 More than one thousand members of the Old School Baptist Churches are meeting in a three-day session at Little Creek Church. 1988 S. McCrumb iii. 23 All the girls who weigh less than one-twenty wear as little as possible. 1990 (Edge 90: Special Issue) Summer 203 Burden allowed only the first eleven of an audience of one hundred and fifty to enter the performance space. 1992 H. Childress (film script) (O.E.D. Archive) 68 Well, the phone bill this month is four hundred and six dollars. It's mainly because of some calls to a one-nine hundred number. 2000 A. Bourdain (2001) 27 ‘How many?’... ‘Oh..one-fifty, two hundred.’ c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Ellesmere) (1871) 798 That he ne sholde suffren in no wyse Custance in-with his Reawme for tabyde Thre days and o quarter of a tyde. a1450 Chron. Repton in (1902) 24 71 (MED) Ranulphe..gave unto Wyllm ferrers, erle of derbie in Kinge Johns tyme, the moytie, or one half, of the said hundred of Repingdon in marryage wythe Agnes his syster. ?c1510 tr. sig. Bij They of Lussbone is vnder yt forsayde linie .xxxix. grade & one halfe. 1653 I. Walton x As soon as you come to the water-side, cast in one-half of the rest of your ground-bait. 1729 J. Swift Let. on Irish Coal in (1841) II. 110 In every half barrel of coals you have the one-half of it slack, and that slack of little use. 1776 A. Smith I. i. viii. 83 One-half the chidren born..die before the age of manhood. View more context for this quotation 1809 S. T. Coleridge 9 Nov. 186 The price of Labour..is full one third less. 1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright 179 No less weight than one-hundreth..of the minimum will be reckoned. 1911 A. P. Trotter ii. 17 This lux is, roughly, one-twelfth of a foot-candle, or about one-fourteenth of Preece's lux. 1955 No. 24. 9 For as of 1955 well over one half of the crimes against property in the United States were committed by youths under twenty-five. 1988 7 July 28/1 The position of the atoms has been determined to within one-billionth of a centimetre. c1440 (?a1400) 3788 (MED) Sekerly assembles thare one seuenschore knyghtes. 1565 J. Calfhill f. 48 When Calleis and Guines, so hardly wonne,..was easely in one iij. dayes, with shame lost. 1611 Dan. iii. 19 That they should heat the furnace one seuen times more then it was wont to be heat. View more context for this quotation 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta iii. xi. 154 In the yeere of our Lord God, one thousand five hundred seaventy nine. 1708 (title) A Rentall of the Rentes belonging to the Corporation of Carlisle called Cullerie Rentes, as they are collected in the year one thousand seven hundred and eight. 1762 in Minutes of Evid. Nairne Peerage (1873) 91 in (H.L. A) XII. 65 At Edinburgh the third day of Aprile one thousand seven hundred and sixty two years it is matrimonially contracted and agreed between William Mercer of Aldie esquire on the one part and Mrs. Margaret Murray of Pitkaithly on the other part..to solemnize and compleat the holy bond of marriage. 1833 M. Scott I. i. 1 In the year one thousand eight hundred and so and so. 1918 c. 6 Preamble And whereas the Army Act will expire in the year, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen on the following days. 1999 (Nexis) 6 Dec. 8 f Witness, James W. Dolan Esquire, at New Bedford, the twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine. C3. a. Compounds of one with a noun used as attributive adjectives. 1874 J. D. Heath 31 Varieties of stroke..divisible into ‘One-ball’ or roquet-strokes, in which only one ball is moved, and ‘Two-ball’ or croquet-strokes. 1993 (U.S. Golf Assoc. & Royal & Anc. Golf Club St. Andrews) App. i. 172 One-Ball Rule. If it is desired to prohibit changing brands of golf balls during a stipulated round, the following condition is recommended. 1905 18 Nov. 6/3 It is desired to secure such a reform in the law as will bring one-child cases within the sphere of inspection. 2000 79 476 China's one-child policy & the care of children. 1908 21 Nov. 9/3 They are one-class, one-price machines. 1998 26 868 Although Rousseau would prefer a one-class society of small property owners, he still sees citizens as having private interests and not only public virtue. 1898 28 July 3/1 The Government are being pressed to introduce a one-clause Bill. 1987 37 210 The central feature..is the thesis that the role of bound variables is to be understood..by considering one-clause sentences in which a pronoun's antecedent is a name. 1946 (Air Ministry) July 11/3 We recall..young pilots, chests aflame with so many medals that it made the Aurora Borealis look like a one-colour miniature. 1997 (Royal Soc.) A. 355 1711 Rempi resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization:..one-colour rempi or..two-colour rempi. 1842 J. Aiton (1857) 152 The butter of a one-cow dairy is seldom good. 1869 3 354 It is quite common in the Pacific States to hear an insignificant person or place spoken of as a ‘one-horse fellow,’ or a ‘one-horse town,’ but a ‘one-cow town’ would certainly astonish the most stolid Californian. 1929 48 (table) Owner of a one cow dairy found to be a carrier [of typhoid fever]. All patients had used milk from that dairy. 2018 E. McKenna vii. 150 The one cow dairy we were set to visit is one that seems to take these five freedoms to heart. 1896 11 60 In Dinajpur in 1786, the Collector (Mr. Hatch) counted up the arable lands..roughly estimating the amount of one-crop or two-crop land in each. 1998 Winter 25/1 It is thus not a one-crop farm like most vineyards, but a biodiverse wine garden with several income sources. 1916 2 123 We may also hope to learn, from trade objects found at Pecos and in the chronologically arranged one-culture ruins, the relative age of many other groups. 1983 56 646 In a June 1983 by-election in Bandar Raub, Pahang,..the party campaigned on the ‘one-language, one-culture problem’. 1906 23 Feb. 2/2 They started with the old style one-deck buses. 2002 (Nexis) 26 July a27 The cars contain 3,000 square feet on two levels, an increase of about 50 percent more than a standard onedeck rail car. 1931 21 130 Finally, traverses were run along streets one quarter mile apart, with one-digit numbers employed to show nine types. 1995–6 Winter 18/2 Echlin's private telephone system allows employees to reach any Echlin location in the world by dialing a one-digit number to reach a tie-line, followed by the seven-digit number of the destination. 1777 5 Mar. 3/2 The Public are also cautioned to beware in receiving Continental Money that the denomination be not altered, as we have lately seen a One Dollar Bill altered to Six Dollars. 1878 H. James iv. 85 He took them, turned them over, and selected a one-dollar note. 1994 P. Baker xxii. 249 Some had..one-dollar bails but still couldn't pay it. 1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Arts & Manuf. 457 in (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 1) VI A one-drill seeding machine was patented in 1841. 2001 (Nexis) 1 Aug. 28 The Chamdrill is a system for drilling small holes using a one drill body and a variety of indexable heads. 1906 13 Aug. 5/1 Most of them are ‘one-drink’ people, although they may have ‘another’. 1994 17 128 I have a no-dinner one-drink smile. 1927 13 525 The one-electron systems..cause not only a change in the multiplicity..but also a shift in radiated lines toward the longer wave-lengths. 1999 17 June 651/2 Flaws creep in, such as a comment confusing the formula for the Balmer series, which applies only to..one-electron ions, with the wavelengths of all the Fraunhofer lines. 1906 16 544 Go through our provinces, and you will be struck by the number of little, new, one-family houses. 1994 E. Danticat ii. ix. 65 We moved to a one-family house in a tree-lined neighborhood near where Marc lived. 1832 (Royal Soc.) 122 540 This [packing case] was carried to the glass-house,..small pieces of wood were placed across its bottom, at about one-foot intervals. 1877 R. W. Raymond 243 A one-foot vein of good ore. 2001 No. 9. 93/1 While away in Indonesia, to illustrate a story he'd written about surfing eight-to-ten-foot Ulus, Bakes and Choco ran a shot of Californian malrider Skip Frye on a one-foot wave and said it as Reg. 1910 19 574 The possibility of a one-level attention is realised, for a feeling does not ordinarily occupy the mind to the exclusion of all sensation. 1998 Apr. 13/1 The table in the article would indicate that if opener is holding 15–16 points and receives a response at the two level to a one-level suit bid, he should rebid 2NT. 1876 39 365 In the northern towns of England, as well as in Scotland, the number of one-light meters,..greatly exceed those used in London. 1908 A. L. Frothingham ii. 192 The lower story or two had a one-light opening. 1982 9 Apr. 198/3 The fixated light was vertically positioned in darkness to a height which the observer reported to be eye-level horizontal (‘one-light experiment’). 1663 Marquis of Worcester Index p. i An one-line Cypher. 1893 8 215/1 Ballads of three strophes..having a one-line refrain and an envoi, became the fashion in the fourteenth century in France. 1997 M. Groening et al. 133/2 You know, Conan, I have a lot to say. I'm not just a one-line wonder. 1884 E. W. Hamilton 29 Oct. (1972) II. 720 The Tory scheme leans to the one-member principle. 1994 10 Aug. 39/1 Sailboard Junior and Sailboard Senior will also be contested by one-member crews with the junior sailor 17 years or under and the senior sailor over 18 years. 1876 25 428 In eleven successive series of excitations at one-minute intervals, the number of double shocks which preceded the excursion increased. 2001 Dec. 218/1 Use fragranced body cream as your one-minute skin and hair makeover. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [adjective] > relating to a one-parent family 1933 30 558 Absence of one parent resulted in what we have called a ‘one-parent family’. 2000 9 Oct. ii. 2/4 J K Rowling is doing a fine job in decoupling the myth that single parenthood is associated with poverty, and in arguing against the stigma attached to one-parent families. 1939 3 Nov. 421/2 It [sc. a book] discusses one-particle problems only, has no mention of the exclusion principle and practically nothing on radiation theory. 1995 (Royal Soc.) A. 350 69 Proofs of probabilistic results... A one-particle model. 1954 J. D. Williams i. 13 One-person games are uninteresting, from the Game Theory point of view. 2001 17 May b2/6 Ruffian is only part of the tough training regime for jockeys. The hot box—a one-person steam cabinet with clamshell doors that encloses the body with the head poking out the top—is..a last chance to lose a couple of pounds before the race. 1801 19 88 Fearns asked, what he gave for the one-pound screeves? 1896 at Ricardo, David The scheme..was abandoned on account of the temptation to forgery given by the substitution of one-pound notes for sovereigns. 2001 14 May 51/3 Wollensky's Grill is the publike little brother to the famous steakhouse, and it does a brisk business: filet mignon, prime rib, roast-beef hash with a fried egg on top (cholesterol city!), a one-pound burger. 1871 J. L. Haddan (title) Economical one-rail railway for India, The Colonies & sparsely-populated Countries. 1991 (Nexis) 10 May (Life section) e7 At Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869, two locomotives pulled up to a one-rail gap left in the tracks. 1913 5 Apr. 4/6 (advt.) An Interrupted Elopement. Side-splitting One-Reel Comedy by American Film Co. 1998 103 293/1 Cripps's version of Hollywood..states that D. W. Griffith was ‘hobbled by the two-reel format’ when he should have said the one-reel format. 1897 1 Nov. 5/2 There are 386,000 persons in London who are one-room dwellers. 1934 75 41 (heading) The one-room flat. 2001 27 Nov. 55/1 Evidently, if you're doing a one-room play about interior designers, that room better be en pointe, girl. 1907 5 442 A slight inspection of the tables reveals no tendency of these one-sex litters to be inherited. 1996 21 Nov. ii. 10/1 A member of the opposite sex can have a civilising effect on the rather claustrophobic atmosphere of a one-sex set-up, but she or he sexualises, too. 1903 4 373 By one-step induction. 1997 D. DeLillo 605 He played a game called sett' e mezz for pennies, sitting on the one-step terrace outside the grocery store. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific internal arrangement > [adjective] > number of storeys 1796 16 Apr. 3/4 That certain One-Story Frame-shop in front, and Two-Story Frame Messuage. 1833 B. Silliman 64 The bagasse houses at Demerara are high one story buildings. 1959 12 Apr. 21/6 America welcomed the one-storey ‘ranch’ house and the ‘split level’. 2000 15 Oct. xi. 8/1 A sliver of plaza..has been taken over by a one-story scooter shed for the Police Department Downtown Center. 1856 M. C. Clarke tr. H. Berlioz 79 A pedal much less used than that which raises the dampers..is the soft pedal (or one-string pedal). 2000 Mar. 75/2 He sings..over his group Alkibar's bubbling foundation of guitar finger picking, the one-string fiddle called the njarka, a lute called a njurkle, [etc.]. 1952 A. Cohen 29 These two sounds (one-tap and fricative r) are in no way opposed. 2002 (Nexis) 25 Apr. PicoConnect(TM), a one-tap application that connects the user to the Internet via a PicoBlue Internet Access Point. 1841 July 60 The importance of insisting on your being a full ‘President’ now, so as to exclude you from any future competition with their own great aspirations, by bringing you within the application of the new-fashioned ‘one-term principle’. 1961 Y. Olsson ii. 34 A two-term sub-system commutable with the one-term sub-system. 1996 31 Aug. 9/2 Within a year of taking office, Mr Clinton looked certain to be a one-term president, on a par with the forgotten mediocrities who infested the White House between Polk and Lincoln. 1888 T. T. Wildridge 124 The one-tree canoe may be considered the boat of northern Europe. 2002 (Nexis) 15 Mar. (Features section) 9 It begins as a pencil sketch of a cottage in the middle of a one-tree paddock. 1835 IV. 380/2 The best specimen of a Catalogue Raisonné that we know of any of the more considerable collections of this country, is that of the library of the writers to the Signet in Edinburgh, published in one volume quarto in 1805. 1996 Sept. 55/3 A one-volume reference that covers every imaginable interaction of atmosphere and light. 1704 at Plough The Double-wheeled Plough, constantly used in Hartfordshire and elsewhere... The One-wheel-plough, which may be almost used in any sort of Land. 1962 E. Bruton 126 A one-wheel clock is recorded in 1598. 1901 28 295 The one-word descriptions of Muhlenberg's Catalogue are insufficient for definite interpretation. 2001 June 236/2 Campbell, like Caviezel, had a simple one-word thought when he heard that he'd be acting opposite Lopez, whom he'd never met: ‘Divalike’. 1855 W. Whitman 22 The one-year wife is recovering and happy. 2001 27 Jan. (Football section) 4/3 Arsenal are to offer keeper David Seaman, 37, a one-year deal when his contract runs out in the summer. b. Parasynthetic. 1787 E. Darwin et al. tr. C. Linnaeus et al. I. 385 Isopyrum... Capsules many, moonletted [L. lunulatae], recurved, one-cell'd. a1802 E. Darwin (1803) v. 33 Allied to fish, the lizard cleaves the flood With one-cell'd heart, and dark frigescent blood. 2000 C. Tudge ii. iii. 130 Diploidy is restored when sperm and egg combine to form a one-celled embryo. 1553 N. Udall tr. T. Gemini A ij/1 The blynde gutte, whiche we call in Englysh, the one-ended gutte. 2000 (Nexis) 1 July 14 Revlon is launching a one-ended jumbo pencil that is designed to give complete colour for the whole face. 1789 tr. C. Linnaeus I. 61 Protea pinifolia, (pine-leaved) and racemosa (racemed), have a one-flower'd calyx. 1813 38 1591 (heading) White one-flowered Japan Lily. 2001 20 June 8/2 Perennial and one-flowered glasswort are rare varieties which could be threatened. the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > foot > [adjective] > having one or two OE 1 Ic wat anfete ellen dreogan wiht on wonge.] (Harl. 221) 363 O fotyd beest. 1907 at Monopode a. Cf. L. monopodium one-footed table. 1998 Jan. 44/3 Paul Plunkett was pleased he jumped off the rock one-footed in his run after bottling it each time in practice. 1833 8 A one-handled urceolate vase. 1993 R. Castleden (BNC) 104 Many of the shapes that had been developed in the Early Minoan continued in use, especially the one-handled cup and the jar with a short spout on its shoulder. the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [adjective] > having particular type of feet ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer (new ed.) xv. 228 See in Chariot inclosde Their one-hoou'd horse. 1996 P. Olivelle tr. (1998) 14 She became a female donkey, and he, a male donkey. And again he copulated with her, and from their union one-hoofed animals were born. 1809 W. Windham in 1st Ser. 14 755 Let the former riders in gigs and whiskeys and one-horsed carriages continue to ride in them. 2000 (Nexis) 24 Nov. 24 I have found references to a vehicle called the chaise-marine... This was a rude sort of one-horsed low cart, with a barred ‘float’. 1876 A. C. Swinburne (ed. 2) 127 Violets one-hued with her hair. 1996 I. Crichton Smith 10 For God when He is at home and writing drama, prose, or poem has a one-hued ribbon. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau xiii. 149 Lolium or Darnel, has a one-leafed involucrum, containing one flower only. 1821 S. F. Gray I. 124 Gamo-sepaled, one-leafed... Two-sepaled, two-leaved... Many-sepaled. 1994 48 845/1 Whenever possible..we recorded length and width of the longest leaf lobe and number of leaf lobes for one-leafed plants. 1787 E. Darwin et al. tr. C. Linnaeus et al. I. 13 Perianth one-leaved. 1875 9 17 The singular one-leaved ash, Fraxinus anomala. 2001 26 July 19/1 Forma diversifolia is a curious tree, often called the one-leaved ash, because the foliage is reduced to one or sometimes two large, rounded leaflets up to 20cm in length on a long leaf stalk. 1868 31 347 Twenty one-membered boroughs. 1921 J. Bryce I. xx. 270 Three times this method was dropped and replaced by the Scrutin d'arrondissement (the scheme of one-membered constituencies). 1995 45 503 It may be worth mentioning that appealing to one-membered kinds is not a way out of these problems. 1866 C. R. Kennedy 48 Mago, his brother's joy, with him in hate One-minded, as in love. 1980 A. Beattie (1981) xiv. 189 Her sister was being very one-minded about dedicating herself to a rich, eccentric old man. the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > [noun] 1836 L. Hunt in Oct. 182 In a tomb like yours we dress An altar to one-mindedness. 1993 C. Hill (1994) ii. 51 With the Bible available in English the maintenance of one-mindedness became increasingly difficult. 1767 Sept. 188 One-petalled. 1787 E. Darwin et al. tr. C. Linnaeus et al. I. 102 Asperugo... Cor[olla] one-petal'd... Throat closed: with Scalelets five. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Hexapetaloid Corol, in botany, divided so near to the base as to have the appearance of a six-petalled corol, but in reality one-petalled, as in agapanthus. 1904 tr. J. W. von Goethe in H. S. Williams 144 The bell-shaped or so-called one-petalled calices represent these cloudy connected leaves. 1931 J. Rhys ii. 190 You were catching butterflies. You caught them by waiting until they settled... Then, when they closed their wings, looking like a one-petalled flower, you grabbed them quickly. 1953 T. Y. Harris viii. 125 Giving the quaint appearance of a one-petalled flower. 1818 L. Hunt p. xvi Close by, from bank to bank, A little bridge there is, a one-railed plank. 1995 (Nexis) 12 Mar. 16 a The porch leads into a two-story-high foyer with a sweeping view of a curved, one-railed stairway. 1854 H. Miller xvi. 340 The one-roomed cottage which I shared with its three other inmates. 1927 at Hardie, James Keir Hardie..was born in a one-roomed cottage at Legbrannock, near Holytown, Lanarkshire. 1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith (1999) iii. 71 In his one-roomed house, with his wife, parents and young son, we had our first decent meal for four days. 1629 J. Gaule 64 Oh that I were able, or worthy to open but his one-Sealed Booke. 1888 at Calash sb. A two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, usually without a cover. 1963 J. A. Hostetler ii. v. 114 A young man old enough to ‘run around’ (being of courting age) has his own ‘rig’, a one-seated buggy, topless in Pennsylvania but not so in Indiana and Iowa. the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > plant having seed > [adjective] > of specific number or many a1794 W. Jones in (1795) 4 305 Berry one-seeded, navelled, smooth, somewhat flattened. 1813 H. Muhlenberg 96 One-seeded honey locust. 1988 J. A. R. Lockhart & A. J. L. Wiseman (ed. 6) i. 12/1 The one-seeded fruit is called a grain. 1836 A. Gray iv. 178 When they [sc. sepals] are united forming one body, the calyx is said to be monosepalous or one-sepaled. 1894 19 318 A very dense-leaved prostrate plant..mostly appearing only one-sepaled. 1933 L. H. Bailey (List II.) 163/1 Monosép-alus: one-sepaled. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific internal arrangement > [adjective] > number of storeys 1821 W. Wirt Let. 29 Aug. in J. P. Kennedy (1849) II. 132 It is a small, red, hip-roofed, one-storied old house. 1977 C. Thomas (1978) iii. 64 Each dacha-like dwelling, wooden and one-storied, was identical, set back from the road behind a strip of lawn. 2002 (Nexis) 30 Apr. 24 Hornby and Sockburn are now where most industrial development is taking place leaving the inner areas and older, often one-storeyed buildings with less yard space, to smaller businesses. 1701 T. Beverley 47 They who have the most, are, but as the One Talented Man. 1828 J. Stark I. 353 One-toed Eft. Feet extremely thin and short, composed of one toe, without a claw. 2000 C. Tudge ii. xviii. 446 There have been many other, quite different, and equally remarkable marsupial forms in the past: a one-toed, short-faced giant kangaroo nearly 3 metres high [etc.]. the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > [adjective] 1821 C. Webbe 10 When his lyre rings so loud, That the hard-won worldly crowd Listen silent to his lays, Till they burst in one-voiced praise. 1998 No. 94. 176 When the sticky complicity into which we are lured by the one-voiced narrative is broken thanks to the uncontrollable, unmanageable words that are an answer to all involved. 1853 8 Oct. 645/3 The Old House by the River is a one-volumed novel in the form of pleasant thoughtful sketches. 1946 56 499 He had already written three-quarters of a one-volumed Economic History of England. 2000 (Nexis) 1 May 59 The book affords the best one-volumed introduction to its subject. ?1853 No. 13. 22 That ‘one-windowed hut’, in which lived the man who had not a wish ungratified. 1943 B. Smith xvi. 122 The mystery of mysteries to Francie was the Chinaman's one-windowed store. 2001 (Nexis) 15 July f6 ‘Plain House’ is just that, a stark, one-windowed structure seen from the back. 1849 H. D. Thoreau 272 With their broad sails set, they moved slowly up the stream in the sluggish and fitful breeze, like one-winged antediluvian birds, and as if impelled by some mysterious counter current. 1991 18 11/1 The seeds of Fraxinus ornus are typically one-winged. 1851 Feb. 168 The one-worded bird, with its wiseacre look and dark guise stoically quaint, driving to madness the ardent, yet bewailing lover. 1901 M. Franklin v. 31 We were too overdone to make more than one-worded utterances, so waited silently in the blazing sun. 1998 (Nexis) 27 Sept. 2 a A gaggle of colorful signs that demonstrate both creative barbed wit (in good taste) along with one-worded demands. c. Parasynthetic nouns and adjectives in -er (see -er suffix1 1). 1800 C. Lamb Let. 27 Dec. in (1975) I. 263 Embark at six oClock in the morning, with a fresh gale, on a Cambridge one-decker, very cold till eight at night, Land at St. Mary's light house. 2002 (Nexis) 22 Mar. Further down the road was a one-decker white-washed cottage which today would be called a bungalow. 1924 D. H. Lawrence 16 May (1962) II. 789 There's a two-room cabin where Mabel can come when she likes, and a one-roomer for Brett. 1993 Spring 16 Fuck her one-roomer, her hot plate, one mug one spoon one knife one can of beans one mattress too goddamn big for the goddamn bed. d. In adjectives formed by prefixing compound adjectives in one- to simple adjectives. 1851 4 221/2 Of the monocotyledonous, or one-seed-leaved plants, a good specimen is the onion or lily. 1883 Apr. 90/2 In re-arranging my collection of vegetable dissections a few days ago, I observed that Podophyllum Emodi is one seed leaved. 1917 11 120 Flowering plants are divided into two great classes—the dicotyledons or two-seed-leaved, and the monocotyledons or one-seed-leaved. C4. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > bone-ace c1557 (new ed.) sig. Ciii I can theche you to play At the triump and one and thyrtye. 1611 J. Florio Trentuno, a game at cards called one and thirtie, or bone-ace. 1765 in (1870) I. 142 You ask me whether I play whist: very often, but oftener at one-and-thirty, which is the fashionable game among the young ladies of this country. a1825 R. Forby (1830) One-and-thirty, a game at cards, much resembling Vingt-un. 1704 W. Darrell (ed. 2) 19 You wou'd have thought this one and twenty came in a direct Line from Hercules, he plaid the Furioso so lively. 1978 (Nexis) 14 Dec. f3 The Bears often use a one-back offense, in which Harper is the only running back behind the quarterback and Payton is lined up as a wingback. 1992 27 Dec. viii. 3/5 The Eagles started the season in a one-back offense, with Herschel Walker as the back. the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [adjective] > types of electric fire 1962 L. Deighton ix. 54 Dalby stood..in front of a puny one-bar electric fire. 1992 I. Rankin (1993) v. 101 There wasn't even a roaring gas fire for him to stand in front of. Instead, there was a one-bar electric job, just about glowing with warmth. 1874 31 July 1/2 Loughlin..made his first base on a clean hit. McGee followed with a one-base hit and sent Loughlin to second. 1937 12 244/1 Bingle is generic for a hit, but also indicates a one-base hit or single. 1998 (Electronic ed.) 11 June In right field, Clemente almost made the one-base hit disappear. 1880 12 May 8/5 Clapp..was brought in by Anson's one-baser. 1949 13 Mar. 25/8 Unser led off with a one-baser. 1999 (Nexis) 25 Oct. (Sports section) e1 In the first inning on Sunday night they bunched five one-basers, good for three runs, off loser Kevin Millwood. society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [adjective] > having written only one book 1866 T. W. Robertson ii. 21 We call him ‘one book Bradley.’ 1970 26 Sept. 8/6 The next book,..certainly a better novel than the second, enjoyed more success but the feeling began to grow that Remarque was a one-book author. 2002 (Nexis) 15 June 15 Julia is a one-book person who has an effortless poise as a writer. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [noun] > other chasing games 1854 A. E. Baker I. 149 Cowardy! cowardy! costard! Repeated by children playing at the game of ‘One catch all’, when they advance towards the one who is selected to catch them, and dare or provoke her to capture them. 1898 A. B. Gomme II. 25 One Catch-all. The words ‘Cowardy, cowardy custard’ are repeated by children playing at this game when they advance towards the one who is selected to catch them. 1969 I. Opie & P. Opie ii. 65 Chase, Chasers [etc.]... Sometimes they are alternative names, or present only in compounds, such as ‘One-Chase-All’ (Dulwich) and ‘Chase me Charlie’. 1985 18 Feb. 32/1 Turning on the computer and starting an application are getting down to the one-keystroke or one-click level of difficulty. 2000 Nov. 16/3 The allure of the vast selections and one-click shopping available in cyberspace. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [adjective] > system of bidding 1929 H. S. Vanderbilt iii. 27 The one-club bid is artificial in that it: (a) Requires a takeout by partner; [etc.]. 1934 27 Nov. 17/5 While the initial responses to the One Club bid are simple enough, there are considerable differences in the subsequent procedure... Mr Harold S. Vanderbilt..is the inventor of the One Club Convention. 1959 31 Dec. 1178/2 The Skegness pair were convincing, using the Nottingham One Club system. 1991 G. Thompson 74 One club systems, systems which employ an artificial 1♣ opening bid. 1937 Apr. 77/1 The use of Waterspar, a new one-coat quick drying enamel, is also described and suggestions given on painting old furniture so that it will look fresh and rejuvenated. 1993 (new ed.) iii. 153/3 One-coat plaster is also available in small packs, either ready-mixed or contained in mixing tubs. These are ideal for small repairs. the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > monochrome 1854 76 556 These gentlemen..wear a monochromic or one-coloured suit. 1861 C. M. Yonge (1862) iii. 45 A lady with..a good-humoured, one-coloured face. 1985 92 390 We consider the pattern (the mess) of the Revenge as a permutation obtained from the nice start position with one-coloured faces by some operation. society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > plated or coated metal > [adjective] > coated or plated with tin > types of tinplate 1818 S. Parkes Let. 20 Feb. in P. W. Flower (1880) vii. 92 The following table will show the different sizes of tin plate which are made in Great Britain, and the marks by which each kind is known in commerce... Common No. 1 [size] 133/ 4 × 10..CI... Cross No. 1 133/ 4 × 10..XI.] 1871 23 The roof is to be covered with the best quality of one-cross tin, painted on both sides. 1890 One-cross, a term applied to tin-plate..having the thickness of No. 30 Birmingham wire-gage, and having an average weight of 0·5 lb. per sheet. 1951 (U. S. Steel Corporation) (ed. 6) xxv. 966 Tin plate is sold on a weight per unit area basis rather than a gage thickness basis... When the plate was heavier, it was identified as IX or one cross. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of yacht > types of 1897 27 Aug. 2/5 Solent Yacht Club... Mr Parker's Forella again captured first prize among the five-raters... Of one designs the prizes fell to Eileen, Plover, and Tangerine. 1902 XXXIII. 906/2 What are called one-design, or restricted classes [of yachts] have latterly become popular. 1933 E. A. Robertson v. 76 My dinghy's in for the Orwell one-designs. 1998 21 Aug. 13/1 In any rule there will be loopholes and there will be people out there who will find them. It's part of the handicapping game. If you don't like it, buy a one-design. 1999 7 403/1 When you are sailing at this level in a one-design class of boat, finding that extra edge over the competition is hard. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > yacht > types of yacht 1897 8 June 2/3 In the 30-footers, Carol showed herself a fast boat in a beat in a light wind... Excellent sport was again shown by the One Designers. 1912 IV. 423/2 Many an expert helmsman in the Y.R.A. classes has served his apprenticeship at the helm of a small one-designer. 1973 Oct. 50/3 Pardon the reminiscences of an over-the-hill one-designer, and allow me to coin a phrase: There's nothing new under the sun! 1974 Apr. 53/1 In covering the SORC from the one-designer's viewpoint, I have interviewed many helmsmen and crews and I find that more and more big-boat owners are aware of the small-boat skipper's talents. the world > space > direction > [adjective] > having one direction 1910 7 689 The several successive moments must be present at once in consciousness, i.e., non-successively, though with due recognition of the one-directional serial relation which their successiveness involves. 1991 Feb. 100/1 Although nearly all ice-climbing handbooks mention the use of bollards,..the first step back from one of these slippery one-directional anchors is always a real heart stopper. 1927 C. A. Lindbergh v. 83 ‘One eightys’ were..probably the cause of more crashes than any other maneuver. 1971 R. Sale i. i. 16 I stayed for a minute, wondering if the Last Gasp had brought some trouble and was doing a one-eighty before the point of no return. 1995 8 May 8/1 The right quickly found itself obliged to pull a one-eighty, leaving skid marks and the smell of burning rubber all over the information superhighway. 1916 R. Frost 60 That ought to make you An ideal one-girl farm, And give you a chance to put some strength On your slim-jim arm. 1956 C. Porter I Love You, Samantha (song) in 2 Remember, Samantha, I'm a one-gal guy. 1993 Nov. 4 Shannen Doherty, the brooding ballsy brunette of Beverly Hills, 90210, is a one-girl Brat Pack. 2002 (Nexis) 29 June (Weekend section) w8 I've always been a one-girl guy... I was never a playboy. society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > [noun] > monotheism > person 1831 C. Lamb 24 Oct. (1935) III. 325 Did G. D. send his penny tract..to convert me to Unitarianism?..why I am as old a one-Goddite as himself. the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > [adjective] > born > only-begotten the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] > begotten > only society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > only child a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxii. 12 Þou hast not spard to þin one geten sonn [L. unigenito filio tuo] for me. c1450 (a1400) Orologium Sapientiæ in (1888) 10 344 Myne onegotene sone. 1960 T. McLean 122 The ball..then came into Scotland, who threw a prodigious one-hander across the field. 2001 11 Mar. viii. 8/1 Hubert Davis missed a one-hander.., but Jahidi White dunked in the rebound with 23.6 to go to make it 103-99. the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > [adjective] society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > [adjective] > not at variance ?1584 Let. Advice to Queen Elizabeth in J. Spedding (1861) I. iii. 54 (modernized text) A people all one-hearted in religion. 1889 G. Massey 261 And Hungary her one-hearted race of mighty heroes hurled In the death-gap of nations, as a bulwark for the world. 1954 41 201 Neither were the Northerners one-hearted in the hankering after an ecumenical Methodism. 1992 G. C. Williams 81 A properly optimized two-hearted vertebrate would be superior to its one-hearted ancestor. 1918 4 June 9 ‘Lefty’ Gregg, Cleveland castoff, pitched a one-hitter against St. Louis. 1933 9 May 24/5 The extraordinary number of low-hit games being pitched this season, with fellows like Parmelee, Schumacher and Berly coming through with one-hitters and two-hitters. 1994 T. Boswell iv. i. 65 Ryan, going for his sixth career no-hitter, was foiled with one out in the ninth. He ‘settled’ for his eleventh career one-hitter with 12 strikeouts. 1909 26 Aug. 10/1 (headline) Kissinger, the no-hit wonder, is bumped by the Birds.] 1914 3 July 3/1 (headline) One-hit wonder fails to hold locals down. 1954 28 Dec. 8 a/2 Liberace apparently wants to get in on this bonanza [of making movies featuring TV personalities] but he does not want to become a one-hit wonder. 1956 1 May 2/6 Ramon Monzant, the New York Giants' one-hit wonder, almost sat out the 1956 season. 1958 27 Dec. 12/2 Several one-hit wonders of the old year, will vanish into shellac obscurity. 1988 2 July (Colour Suppl.) 5/3 By tradition, Bond girls have always been one-hit wonders—here today,..gone tomorrow. 2007 Aug. 76/3 The Irish one-man band is back with electronic folk-rock that proves he's no one-hit wonder. 1941 P. G. Wodehouse (1961) ii. 269 In the corner by the door is a tap with a basin the size of a saucer under it, and beyond that what Chic Sale in his famous book The Specialist calls ‘a family one-holer’ [the term is not found in Sale's book]. 1959 28 7/1 In such poor mountain districts as Kentucky's Eighth Congressional..the ancient and honourable ‘one-holer’—outside—still reigns supreme as the would-be philosopher's stool. 1992 W. Stewart xxxi. 222 Most of the old boathouses had had these one-holers, although I can't imagine that anyone ever used them. 1936 30 May 11/1 It was a sharp one-hopper by Bill Lewis that bounced off Burgess Whitehead's shin bone for a single. 1977 (Nexis) 17 Sept. d3 Bernie Carbo opened the sixth of a 1-1 game with a one-hopper just past the lunge of second baseman Willie Randolph. 1991 M. Mantle i. 14 He used to hit one-hoppers to the first basemen all the time. 2001 3 June xiv. 1/1 When late in the game a one-hopper came screaming straight at her she might well have made the play. society > communication > journalism > journal > parts and layout of journals > [noun] > headline > types of the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > a jest or joke > other types of jest or joke 1904 ‘M. Twain’ in 2 Jan. 18/1 There were headings—one-liners and two-liners—and that was good. 1962 16 May 2/2 Providing the laughs will be..Dave Madden, young comedian who leaps with ease from satire to one-liners. 1969 May 85/2 McCarthy had a one-liner for everyone in Washington, and the reporters who found favor were those who learned to leer and feed straight lines. 1970 85 330 The text consists of one-liners spoken in the first person without connecting narrative. 2001 24 Apr. ii. 30/1 Perhaps the most enduring feature..is its light-hearted, whimsical tone... There'll be a one-liner to hand, a Bacharach song or a moment of slapstick to complement another memorable scene. the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > other deformities > person society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > motor vessel > with one-cylinder engine society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [noun] > motor vehicle > with specific type of engine 1908 S. Ford 90 Then me and Sadie in her bubble, towin' the busted one-lunger behind. 1911 H. Quick v. 124 The Old Man..was a one-lunger. 1963 A. Bird & F. Hutton-Stott 15 The ‘Varsity’ model, and a few of the old one-lungers. 2000 9 Apr. ii. 18/2 It was a place where the ‘cranks and misfits and one-lungers,’ as Gould called them, mingled freely with genuine artists, the poets and painters and sculptors. 1909 28 Aug. 7/4 A number of motor cars in Paris are now fitted with a musical instrument which is delightful compared with the old one-note horn. 1921 30 276 Melody..is added to relieve the monotony of the one-note, equal-spaced sounds. 1956 22 Sept. 8/4 Van Heflin has a role that enables him again to prove..that he is distinctly not a one-note actor. 1997 20 June b21/3 [He] may wryly send up his own genre, but..his ‘brand of humor eventually proves one-note and thin’. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > games similar to baseball > [noun] 1850 35 84 [We] never engaged in a game of chance of any sort in the world, save the ‘bassball’, ‘one’ and ‘two hole cat’..of our boyhood.] 1856 R. Jonathan 90 Just then two of his play-mates coming along with a ball, Dick..went to join them in a game of ‘one-old-cat’. 1929 27 Mar. 10/3 Supervised play has taken the place of ‘one old cat’, and hockey has replaced shinney. 1991 S. J. Gould iii. 51 Spalding had vociferously advocated a purely American origin, citing the colonial game of ‘one old cat’ as a distant precursor. 1924 25 Apr. 361/2 Last but not least he took a ‘one one’ in the French Tripos last year. 1968 K. Martin i. 3 I had taken a One–one in my Tripos at Magdalene. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [adjective] > floor or storey 1663 T. Jordan 65 One pair of stairs you cannot miss, Next to the Bower my Chamber is.] 1795 6 May 1/4 The Name under the one-pair-of-stairs window. 1897 Jan. 104 A big man..leaning from a one-pair window. 1907 J. Hollingshead 11 Do you recollect, Mrs. Cluppins, being in Mrs. Bardell's back one pair of stairs, on one particular morning in July last. 1892 7 531 The gravest evils which resulted from this policy..by the production of a ‘solid South,’ the maintenance there long beyond the natural period of the hurtful one-party system. 1950 ‘G. Orwell’ 156 The appearance of one-party régimes based on police terrorism, faked plebiscites, etc. 2001 12 Mar. 7/2 Seventy-one years of one-party rule by the PRI, he argues, have all but flogged the life out of Mexico's political establishment. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > others 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Basilinda,..The playe called one penie, one penie: come after me. 1677 ii. at Basilinda The play called One peny boy, one peny boy came after me. 1971 A. C. Manchester (U.S.D.A. Agric. Econ. Report no. 207) 30 1-percent milk was above whole milk in 40 percent of the uncontrolled markets selling the product. 1994 30 July h5/2 I needed to buy milk but I was baffled as to whether a litre of homo could be substituted for two litres of 2 per cent or four litres of 1 per cent. And what about skim? 2002 (Electronic ed.) 24 Mar. e4 Dawn's sample menu. Breakfast: Banana; bowl of Total cereal; 1 cup 1 percent milk; 2 cups coffee. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > one-piece garment > [adjective] the world > relative properties > wholeness > [adjective] > united into a whole > without pieces or parts 1880 G. A. Sala (1882) II. 13 Slop-shops, or ‘one-piece stores’ overflowing with guernseys, pea jackets, sou'-wester hats. 1895 Spring & Summer 501/2 Bathing suits. One-piece suits. 1984 Apr. 176/1 The eighth system—the Bang & Olufsen Beocenter—is different: it's a one-piece unit (plus speakers) in the manufacturer's distinctive style. 1994 Oct. (Ski Holidays '95 Suppl.) 35/1 A one-piece cuts out the possibility of getting snow down your midriff during the inevitable beginner's tumbles. 2001 Nov. 244/1 My old one-piece ski-suit, I'm reliably informed, is not as ‘phat’ as it once was, so I'm about to invest in a new one. What do you suggest? society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > lieutenant > sub-lieutenant 1919 W. H. Downing 37 One-pip, Second Lieutenant. 1940 3 Jan. 35/4 Dingbatting to a one-pip artist may be a bit more free and easy. 1942 N. Balchin i. 8 There were the usual tarts and the usual collection of one-pips and airmen. 1993 J. Meades (1994) 67 But there were no cars save those of spivs, reps, yanks and greenboys in khaki who really were boys, one-pip shriekers who travelled in packs, heads out the window. 1919 15 Jan. 3/2 The one-pipper strove to send the people away. 1956 D. M. Davin 181 Whatever young one-pipper it was could get a night's leave. 1999 (Nexis) 27 Oct. (Features section) 4 He sailed to the Middle East..in 1940—with one stripe on his shoulder he was known as a ‘one pipper’ or in his words ‘the lowest form of animal life’. the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > condition of tapering to a point > [adjective] > having (a) point(s) > specific number of 1811 W. Aiton 305 Carices, sedge-grasses..are, by the Ayrshire farmers, called blue, sour, one-pointed grasses. 1998 Fall 115/1 Mirabai was a bhakti (a person dedicated to spiritual realization through one-pointed devotion) in the Tantric tradition. 1879 June 637 This concentration of thought, ekâgratâ or one-pointedness, as the Hindoos called it, is something to us almost unknown. 1923 Feb. 223 He has an innate tendency to ‘onepointedness’—as it is sometimes called—to concentration on unity. 1960 J. Hewitt ix. 135 In..another method to achieve withdrawal and onepointedness, the meditator imagines that he has a diamond in each ear, [etc.]. 2001 1 Apr. (Life Suppl.) 48/2 In the practice of Zen archery, for instance, the master observes the student's tanden, ignoring the target board altogether, yet can predict a bullseye accurately every time according to the archer's visible degree of hara-centredness or ‘one-pointedness’. 1916 28 June 5/4 One-pot cookery demonstrations..aroused much interest. Less than a halfpenny-worth of gas will cook a whole meal for five persons. 1940 (Board of Educ.) 13 One pot dinners. Time, labour, and fuel are saved by cooking meals in one large saucepan. 1991 9 Nov. 23/1 The entire reaction was carried out in a so-called ‘one-pot’ process: all the ingredients were added to the same reaction flask. 2001 21 Oct. (Life Suppl.) 62/4 In the one-pot stew, anko-nabe, monkfish meat, skin and liver are all simmered in dashi made from monkfish bones. society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > English banknotes > [noun] > one-pound note society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > guns by weight of shot > of specific weight of shot 1811 S. Beazley ii. 27 We shall be pursued But not overtaken..trust to my disguise, postilions, pistols, and one-pounders, for that. 1893 ‘M. Twain’ in Jan. 339/2 They find they've given a tramp a million-pound bill when they thought it was a one-pounder. 1920 6 659 By the courtesy of Rear-Admiral Ralph Earle, we have a Naval one-pounder gun. 1992 (BNC) Apr. 44 A sharp eyed youngster should have no difficulty in spotting the loose change... Alongside 1p's and 5p's you will come across plenty of 2p's and..the occasional one-pounder lurking amongst the litter. 1901 H. Lawson 54 The bush roads and tracks that branch out fanlike through the scrubs to the one-pub towns and sheep and cattle stations out there in the haunting wilderness. 1983 (Nexis) 31 July e1 We were staying with friends in a thatched cottage at Tully Cross, a one-pub town in Ireland's rugged Connemara section. 2002 (Nexis) 27 June 5 West of Toowoomba in the one-pub town of Leyburn, 30 people—a sixth of the population—breasted the bar at the Royal Hotel. 1894 30 Mar. 1/4 At six the basin was so crowded that you could scarcely have found space for a one-rater. From that time until half-past nine it was one continuous procession of yachts. 1954 July 52/1 Prince George, Duke of York, later King George V, and then a young naval officer, took to the sport of yacht racing in a small class boat—a ‘One Rater’. 1983 N. Courtney x. 135 While a serving officer in the Royal Navy, the then Duke of York ordered a ‘one-rater’, a 20-foot racing sloop. 2015 N. Compton 31/2 His most famous client was Prince George, later King George V, who ordered a 1-rater from him in 1896. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > short or supporting film 1916 ‘B. M. Bower’ v. 69 We've made quite a haul since you left. A bunch of one-reelers. 1998 16 Nov. 14/2 He discovered the wonders of cinema, the one-reelers, and then, when he was six or seven, the first full-length features. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > circus performance > [noun] > circus arena 1903 4 July 2/2 I was out with a one-ring tent show run by a guy named Delevan.] 1907 6 July 23/3 Good place: rehearse dramatic, opera, minstrel, vaudeville or complete one-ring circus. 1922 P. G. Wodehouse vi. 142 No human being could play golf against a one-ring circus like that without blowing up. 1972 1 June 40/3 An opera house that is not a cultural force is only a one-ring circus made up of vocal acrobats who use music as a trampoline. 2000 8 Aug. b6/5 I can understand Big Apple's sensitivity to the arrival of another one-ring circus in New York, but a competitive rivalry could lead to near-record sales for both circuses. society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publishing or spreading by leaflets or notices > [noun] > placarding, postering, or billing > a placard, notice, or bill > types of 1895 Jan. 2 (advt.) We have designed a One-Sheet, especially for Bill Posters' use. 1907 25 Feb. 2/4 Heralds, tonighters, dodgers, tack and window cards, half-sheets, one-sheets, three-sheets, cloth banners.., etc. 1971 22 May 38 Participating radio stations will be provided, for their sales staff, updated sales one-sheets and printed brochures. 2009 G. Hurwitz xli. 267 Noir movie one-sheets covered the walls. 2017 (Nexis) 24 Sept. (Late Final ed.) ar13 [Alternative movie] posters that are more treasured—and often considerably more expensive—than the official one-sheets. 1908 4 Nov. 3/3 In the meadows we did roam; And in the one-star night returned Together home. 1961 24 Mar. 21/4 One-star restaurants, rather slightingly dismissed by M. Michelin as ‘a good restaurant for its class’. 2000 14 No. 1. 28 I took a room at a one-star pensione. society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [adjective] > relating to shop > types of shop 1933 June (Gen. Merchandise ed.) 95/1 The ‘One-stop-drive-in super market’ provides free parking, and every kind of food under one roof. 1962 5 May 452/1 Commercial banks which are able to offer complete ‘one stop’ banking service—including current accounts, consumer loans and so on. 1996 11 Mar. 62/3 Sooner or later, either the Republicans or Democrats are going to cobble together an amalgamated philosophy that combines the strengths of each party's agenda, offering the voters one-stop economic and cultural shopping. society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [adjective] > accentual > stressed > having specific number of stresses 1958 A. J. Bliss 62 We must, in fact, recognize the possibility of one-stress verses. Sievers himself in later life envisaged such one-stress verses; Pope, too, makes one-stress verses a mainstay of his new theory. 1992 R. D. Fulk vii. 182 It does not prove that (to take one example) þæt ðæs ahlæcan..is a one-stress verse, while oððe gripe meces..bears two stresses. society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling bag > hand-held 1933 28 May 9 (advt.) Men's cases (1-suiter); reg. 12.50 Now 9.95. 1971 ‘O. Bleeck’ (1972) xx. 181 He was carrying something that looked like a one-suiter. 1990 31 Oct. 9/2 A very special buy is the Skyway Twist one-suiter carry-on. 1905 5 May 689/1 The old-time country school is a passing institution. A one-teacher school is as inefficient as a one-man mill. 1927 G. S. Browne 266 The consolidated school in a central position will eventually take the place of a group of one-teacher schools. 1990 22 Aug. 40/5 Plans for a one-teacher school to be built in the grounds of the Pioneer Museum are well under way. the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > [adjective] 1900 6 137 The small army that a one-track railroad..is thought to be able to supply. 1915 10 July in C. Seymour (1926) v. 124 I am afraid that the President's characterization of himself as ‘a man with a one-track mind’ is all too true. 1938 D. Baker i. ii. 24 He was completely one-track. He sat there and took them one by one. When he had one down, he'd open the hymnal to another place, at random, and start another one. 1995 Aug. 80/3 People might think I have a one-track mind, and that all I talk about is encryption and privacy. 1905 264 Among the earliest of mundane things remembered are the resplendent red shirts of the volunteer firemen, conspicuous in every Fourth of July parade; the marvels that were seen at the first one-tent, one-clown, one-trick-pony, pioneer Oregon circus. 1950 R. Franken 143 ‘I'll make another basket,’ said Claudia. ‘I'm a one- trick pony.’ 1991 29 Oct. 8/3 Other software companies wonder if Lotus has become a one-trick horse: clever in spreadsheets but little else. society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > container or package for goods > [adjective] > that may not be returned 1967 May 72/2 Most containers are ‘one-trip’ in the sense that the product is used and the container is thrown away. 1993 15 Jan. 22/2 The company spokeswoman believed that plastics, aluminium and one-trip containers were ‘bad’, glass, paper and refillable containers were ‘good’, and recyclable packs were environmentally-friendly. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > actions 1809 J. Roland 89 If the adversary parries the one-two-three feint. 1988 E. D. Morton 38/1 The most common two-feint attacks were the one-two-three deceiving two simple parries and the triplé. 1848 T. J. Crowen (ed. 2) 294 One-two-three-four cake, One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, and four eggs. 1887 Sept. 745/1 Mildred, opening a cookery-book, pointed out ‘one-two-three-four cake’. 1992 A. Waters 118 This cake is called 1-2-3-4 because it is a very old recipe and people could remember the ingredients by the numbers without having to write it down. 2002 (Nexis) 30 Jan. (Life section) e4 Recipe sleuths may note that Ferebee's cake recipe is a variation of the old standby One-Two-Three-Four Cake, borrowed from Joy of Cooking. 1869 S. Bowles xi. 218 We..took a quiet tea with a one-wive Mormon. the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > loving or attached to only one woman 1894 H. Caine i. ix. 45 I'm a one-woman man, Kate; but loving one is giving me eyes for all. 1937 M. Hillis iv. 70 We ourselves have run our one-woman ménage both with and without an office job. 1974 J. Cleary v. 156 I'm a one-woman man. 2000 17 Nov. a12/1 Hillary Rodham Clinton acted as a one-woman advance team for her husband today, arriving..several hours before President Clinton and plunging into buoyant crowds for a bit of shopping. the world > people > person > person of specific age > [noun] the world > people > person > person of specific age > [adjective] ?1609 G. Chapman tr. Homer x. 178 An Heffer, most select, That neuer yet was tamde with yoke, broad fronted, one yeare old. 1758 13–15 June One Year Olds: 9. A Bay Colt, got by Figure, out of Young Mariamne. 10. A Bay Filly [etc.]. 1789 (ed. 2) 1 141 I turned in my Tegs (or one year old sheep). 1842 Aug. 245 The following premiums were awarded. On Horses... One Year Olds... Moon, (spotted colt), certificate. 1863 J. C. Morton (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 723/3 Hogget or Lamb-hog, a young sheep before the first shearing; a one-year-old sheep. 1918 5 363 The phloem of the one-year-old twigs of mature plants shows many of the features found in seedlings. 1920 15 202 He may have used the term semenstris as roughly equivalent to ‘infant’, somewhat as our newspapers retail various incidents of ‘one-year-olds’ or ‘three-year-olds’. 1976 R. Scollon (title) Conversations with a one year old: a case study of the developmental foundation of syntax. 2001 28 Aug. ii. 11/2 What is the risk to my one-year-old daughter of being given the combined MMR vaccine as opposed to individual vaccines at four-month intervals? 2014 21 June b8/5 (advt.) Free dogs to good home 3 one year olds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). onev. Inflections: Present participle oneing; past participle oned; Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: one adj. Etymology: Either directly < one adj., or the reflex of an unprefixed Old English verb which may be shown by quot. eOE at sense 1.It is unclear whether the Old English past participle form geanede (one isolated attestation: see quot. eOE at sense 1) represents a prefixed or an unprefixed verb, i.e. geānian or ānian , neither of which is otherwise attested. In other Germanic languages compare (variously with or without prefix; compare y- prefix) Old Saxon giēnon (Middle Low German ēnen ), Old High German einōn (also more commonly gieinōn ; Middle High German einen , German einen ), Old Swedish ena (Swedish ena ), Danish ene . Compare also French unir and its etymon classical Latin ūnīre < ūnus (see une v.). Now rare. society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > become united [verb (reflexive)] eOE tr. Bede (Tanner) iii. xiv. 214 Oð þæt heo wæron in æne unmætne læg geanede and gesomnade. 1340 (1866) 88 (MED) Þis loue and þis wylnynge..ioyneþ and oneþ..þe herte to god. 1340 (1866) 219 Yef tuo..oneþ ham togidere me uor to bidde. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 289 Egbertus onede the kyngdoms. c1395 G. Chaucer 1968 Ech thyng that is oned in hym selue Is moore strong than whan it is to scatered. ?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena (Harl.) (1966) 193 (MED) God schewide to her..his eendelees benygnyte, and oonede it wiþ her brenynge desier. c1449 R. Pecock (1860) 41 Forto be couplid and ooned to God. a1492 W. Caxton tr. (1495) i. xlix. f. lxxxxviii/1 Yf the Pryours were vnyed and onyd wyth the abbayes. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in ii. f. cccxliiiv Eyre by his hete contraryeth water that is colde, but thilke contrariousty is oned my [read by] moysture, for bothe be they moyst. 1588 W. Byrd sig. G Dead? no, no, but renomed, With the anointed oned! c1650 (c1400) Julian of Norwich (Sloane 2499) (1996) 65 Our soule is fulsomly onyd to God. 1828 W. Carr (ed. 2) One, to atone. 1848 P. J. Bailey (ed. 3) 18 It is this which ones us with the whole and God. 1921 B. Williamson v. 45 The human race was so oned with Adam that all sinned in him. 1990 iv. 148 He felt himself ‘oned’ with this supranational light in a union that transformed his human personhood without annihilating it. 1996 (Nexis) 30 Jan. 12 I hope that my friends in these programmes, and their many ways of ‘oneing’ with the Divine will have refreshed and renewed your lives. the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > be in agreement [verb (intransitive)] society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > be in concord [verb (intransitive)] > become united c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) 879 Philip..Anes with Olympadas..And lofes hire lely to his lyfes ende. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun (Nero) (table of contents) Quhen Kynge Anthiocus anyt wyþ þe Romanys. 1969 I. Murdoch iii. 25 Two indistinct and terrible angels encircle the earth, embracing, enlacing, tumbling through circular space, both oned and oneing in magnetic joy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : -onesuffix <  adj.n.pron.eOE v.eOEsee also |
