On`er*a"tion (?), n. The act of loading. [Obs.]

On"er*ous (?), a. [L. onerosus, fr. onus, oneris, a load, burden: cf.F.

onéreux.] Burdensome; oppressive. "Too onerous a solicitude." I.

Taylor.

Onerous cause (Scots Law), a good and legal consideration; -- opposed

to gratuitous.

On"er*ous*ly, adv. In an onerous manner.

Ones (?), adv. Once. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One`self" (?), pron. A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one.

Commonly writen as two words, one's self.

One's self (or more properly oneself), is quite a modern form. In

Elizabethan English we find a man's self=one's self.

Morris.

One`-sid"ed (?), a. 1. Having one side only, or one side prominent;

hence, limited to one side; partial; unjust; unfair; as, a one-sided

view or statement. "Unguarded and one-sided language." T. Arnold.

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