2. Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end.

Within a while, Philoxenus came to see how onward the fruits were

of his friend's labor.

Sir P. Sidney.

On"ward, adv. Toward a point before or in front; forward;

progressively; as, to move onward.

Not one looks backward, onward still he goes.

Pope.

On"ward*ness, n. Progress; advancement.

On"wards (?), adv. [See -wards.] Onward.

On"y (?), a. Any. [Obs.] Chaucer.

On"y*cha (?), n. [NL., from L. onyx, -ychis, onyx, also, a kind of

mussel, Gr. &?;, &?;. See Onyx.]

1. An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some

kind of strombus. Ex. xxx. 34.

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