Defn: Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what one would have well done, one should do one's self. 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.
ONE
One, v. t.
Defn: To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite; to assimilite. [Obs.] The rich folk that embraced and oned all their heart to treasure of the world. Chaucer.
ONEBERRY
One"ber`ry, n. (Bot.)
Defn: The herb Paris. See Herb Paris, under Herb.
ONE-HAND
One"-hand`, a.
Defn: Employing one hand; as, the one-hand alphabet. See Dactylology.
ONE-HORSE
One"-horse`, a.
1. Drawn by one horse; having but a single horse; as, a one-horse carriage.