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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Several" Quotes from Famous Books

... vicar retorted by sending to the Hall a magnificent Cottenham cheese which, as a former Fellow of Trinity, he had succeeded in obtaining. Moreover Mr. Ambrose himself descended to the cellar and brought up several bottles of Audit ale which he declared must be allowed to stand some time in the pantry in order to bring out the flavour and to be thoroughly settled. John gave his assistance wherever it was ...

— A Tale of a Lonely Parish • F. Marion Crawford

... announced deliberately, "I shall have something to say on several of these matters. At present I can only say that I cannot support this bill," and Mr. Todd was ushered out. He met Mr. Easterly coming in and greeted him effusively. He knew him only as a rich philanthropist, ...

— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois

... straight line. Then it stretched its body to the right side, pulled, and failed to move the shell. It then stretched its foot to the left side, pulled with all of its strength, and released the shell. There were intervals of rest between these several attempts, during which the snail remained quiescent.[34] Thus we see that it exerted force in three directions, never twice in the same direction, which fact shows conscious determination and no slight degree ...

— The Dawn of Reason - or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals • James Weir

... often the whole trouble with the black field-hand may be summed up by Aunt Ophelia's word, "Shiftless!" They have noted repeatedly scenes like one I saw last summer. We were riding along the highroad to town at the close of a long hot day. A couple of young black fellows passed us in a muleteam, with several bushels of loose corn in the ear. One was driving, listlessly bent forward, his elbows on his knees,—a happy-go-lucky, careless picture of irresponsibility. The other was fast asleep in the bottom ...

— The Souls of Black Folk • W. E. B. Du Bois

... newsboys, piercing the dull roar of the multitude, and made it possible to take the measure of its strata. At the end of a street, near Amelie's restaurant, there was a noise like that of a mill-race. The crowd was stemmed up against several ranks of police and soldiers. In front of the obstacles a serried mass was formed, howling, whistling, singing, laughing, and eddying this way and that.... The laughter of the people is the only means they have of expressing ...

— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland

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