Crossword clues for several
several
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Several \Sev"er*al\, adv. By itself; severally. [Obs.]
Every kind of thing is laid up several in barns or
storehoudses.
--Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
Several \Sev"er*al\, a. [OF., fr. LL. separalis, fr. L. separ separate, different. See Sever, Separate.]
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Separate; distinct; particular; single.
Each several ship a victory did gain.
--Dryden.Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.
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Diverse; different; various.
--Spenser.Habits and faculties, several, and to be distinguished.
--Bacon.Four several armies to the field are led.
--Dryden. Consisting of a number more than two, but not very many; divers; sundry; as, several persons were present when the event took place.
Several \Sev"er*al\, n.
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Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual. [Obs.]
There was not time enough to hear . . . The severals.
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Persons oe objects, more than two, but not very many.
Several of them neither rose from any conspicuous family, nor left any behind them.
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An inclosed or separate place; inclosure. [Obs.]
They had their several for heathen nations, their several for the people of their own nation.
--Hooker.In several, in a state of separation. [R.] ``Where pastures in several be.''
--Tusser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "existing apart," from Anglo-French several, from Middle French seperalis "separate," from Medieval Latin separalis, from Latin separ "separate, different," back-formation from separare "to separate" (see separate (v.)). Meaning "various, diverse, different" is attested from c.1500; that of "more than one" is from 1530s, originally in legal use.\n\nHere we are all, by day; by night we're hurled\n
By dreams, each one into a several world\n
[Herrick, 1648]\nRelated: Severalty. Jocular ordinal form severalth attested from 1902 in American English dialect (see -th (2)).
Wiktionary
adv. By itself; severally. det. separate, distinct; particular. (15th-19th century) n. 1 (context obsolete English) An area of land in private ownership (as opposed to common land). 2 Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual. (rfex) 3 (context archaic English) An enclosed or separate place; enclosure. (rfex)
WordNet
adj. considered individually; "the respective club members"; "specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports all agreed" [syn: respective(a), several(a), various(a)]
distinct and individual; "three several times" [syn: several(p)]
(used with count nouns) of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many; "several letters came in the mail"; "several people were injured in the accident" [syn: several(a)]
Usage examples of "several".
There were several women delegates and Ken made the most of their ablutions until he was distracted by the appearance of Karanja in a neat grey suit, an ingratiating grin on his face and his big ears standing out like sails.
As these several abnormal conditions and diseases will be treated of elsewhere in this volume, we omit their further consideration here.
I have ever conversed, or whose treatises I have read, are firmly convinced that the several breeds to which each has attended, are descended from so many aboriginally distinct species.
For when it is stated, for instance, that the German Spitz dog unites more easily than other dogs with foxes, or that certain South American indigenous domestic dogs do not readily cross with European dogs, the explanation which will occur to everyone, and probably the true one, is that these dogs have descended from several aboriginally distinct species.
Roman court, and gave his abridgment the name of Breviary, which thus came to denote a work which from another point of view might be called a Plenary, involving as it did the collection of several works into one.
It was found that the womb had been ruptured and the child killed, for in several days it was delivered in a putrid mass, partly through the natural passage and partly through an abscess opening in the abdominal wall.
Several lawsuits sought to ensure that these overseas absentee ballots were included in the final count.
Whenever the leaves remain inflected during several days over seeds, it is clear that they absorb some matter from them.
It appears from these several facts that digitaline causes inflection, and poisons the glands which absorb a moderately large amount.
The several substances, which are completely dissolved by the secretion, and which are afterwards absorbed by the glands, affect the leaves rather differently.
The horrifying truth is that she was almost certainly kept captive in the cellar for several days, and regularly tortured and abused, until she was finally killed.
He broke down under questioning and confessed to several incidents of sexually abusing children.
At her house I made the acquaintance of several gamblers, and of three or four frauleins who, without any dread of the Commissaries of Chastity, were devoted to the worship of Venus, and were so kindly disposed that they were not afraid of lowering their nobility by accepting some reward for their kindness--a circumstance which proved to me that the Commissaries were in the habit of troubling only the girls who did not frequent good houses.
I am told that several worlds much like Earth exist in the Universe accessible from Joy Hall: that is, from my new platform.
Accordingly, the finger may be dipped into acetone for several seconds, removed, and be permitted to dry, after which it is inked and printed.