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/sˈɛvrəl/ /sˈɛvərəl/ Listen

adjective

Several adj.

1.

Separate; distinct; particular; single. "Each several ship a victory did gain." "Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand."

2.

Diverse; different; various. "Habits and faculties, several, and to be distinguished." "Four several armies to the field are led."

3.

Consisting of a number more than two, but not very many; divers; sundry; as, several persons were present when the event took place.

noun

Several n.

1.

Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual. (Obs.) "There was not time enough to hear... The severals."

2.

Persons oe objects, more than two, but not very many. "Several of them neither rose from any conspicuous family, nor left any behind them."

3.

An inclosed or separate place; inclosure. (Obs.) "They had their several for heathen nations, their several for the people of their own nation."

In several, in a state of separation. (R.) "Where pastures in several be."

adverb

Several adv. By itself; severally. (Obs.) "Every kind of thing is laid up several in barns or storehoudses."

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"Several" Quotes from Famous Books

... months out of twelve. In Fezzan, all the domestic animals, including dogs, and horses, and fowls, eat dates. Such are some of the various and important uses to which this noble tree is turned. The Saharan tribes, likewise, are wont to live for several months of the year upon two other products, viz., milk and gum. Milk I have mentioned as supporting the Touaricks exclusively six or more months in the year. Gum, also, in the Western Sahara, furnishes tribes with an exclusive sustenance ...

— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson

... burning in profusion (the Companions of Jehu were too aristocratic to make use of any other light) and cast their reflection upon stands of arms of all kinds, among which double-barrelled muskets and pistols held first place. Foils and masks were hanging here and there upon the walls; several musical instruments were lying about, and a few mirrors in gilt frames proclaimed the fact that dress was a pastime by no means unappreciated by the strange ...

— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas

... with boiling water several times before retiring. If you keep this up long enough it will be breakfast time, and you may then go about your daily labor with the happy consciousness that you have saved the bed clothes a great deal ...

— The Silly Syclopedia • Noah Lott

... seem that she believed in the reality of it all, and so beautiful did they appear to her that she was reluctant to leave, and begged to be taken back to see it all again. Unfortunately it is not true. A full and careful inquiry has been made into the story, of which there are several versions, and its origin traced to a little story-telling Wiltshire boy who had read or heard of the white-robed priests of the ancient days at "The Stones," and who just to astonish other little boys naughtily pretended that he ...

— Afoot in England • W.H. Hudson

... particular dimensions, divided the table into equal sections, and proceeded to make the two players fill up these sections so that the second player should win. But why should the first player be so accommodating? At any stage he has only to throw down a cigar obliquely across several of these sections entirely to upset Mr. 2's calculations! We have to assume that each player plays the best possible; not that ...

— Amusements in Mathematics • Henry Ernest Dudeney

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