The dream of Pharaoh is one. --Gen. xli.
25.
O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those
men in England. --Shak.
2. Denoting a person or thing conceived or spoken of
indefinitely; a certain. ``I am the sister of one
Claudio'' [--Shak.], that is, of a certain man named
Claudio.
3. Pointing out a contrast, or denoting a particular thing or
person different from some other specified; -- used as a
correlative adjective, with or without the.
From the one side of heaven unto the other. --Deut.
iv. 32.
4. Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a
whole.
The church is therefore one, though the members may
be many. --Bp. Pearson
5. Single in kind; the same; a common.
One plague was on you all, and on your lords. --1
Sam. vi. 4.
Men may counsel a woman to be one. --Chaucer.
Note: One is often used in forming compound words, the
meaning of which is obvious; as, one-armed, one-celled,
one-eyed, one-handed, one-hearted, one-horned,
one-idead, one-leaved, one-masted, one-ribbed,
one-story, one-syllable, one-stringed, one-winged, etc.
{All one}, of the same or equal nature, or consequence; as,
he says that it is all one what course you take. --Shak.
2. A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i.
3. A single person or thing. ``The shining ones.'' --Bunyan.
``Hence, with your little ones.'' --Shak.
He will hate the one, and love the other. --Matt.
vi. 24.
That we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the
other on thy left hand, in thy glory. --Mark x. 37.
{After one}, after one fashion; alike. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{At one}, in agreement or concord. See {At one}, in the
Vocab.
{Ever in one}, continually; perpetually; always. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
{In one}, in union; in a single whole.
{One and one}, {One by one}, singly; one at a time; one after
another. ``Raising one by one the suppliant crew.''
--Dryden.
The rich folk that embraced and oned all their heart to
treasure of the world. --Chaucer.
It was well worth one's while. --Hawthorne.
Against this sort of condemnation one must steel one's
self as one best can. --G. Eliot.
Note: One is often used with some, any, no, each, every,
such, a, many a, another, the other, etc. It is
sometimes joined with another, to denote a reciprocal
relation.
When any one heareth the word. --Matt. xiii.
19.
She knew every one who was any one in the land of
Bohemia. --Compton
Reade.
The Peloponnesians and the Athenians fought
against one another. --Jowett
(Thucyd. ).
The gentry received one another. --Thackeray.