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Several   /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



... weeks, therefore, they travelled slowly, camping sometimes for two or three days on a stream, and then making a long march until they again came to water. The beaver traps had been left behind, but they were fortunate enough to come upon several beaver villages, and by exercising patience they were able to shoot a good many, getting in all some fifty skins. Tom used to go out in the evening and lie down to watch the beavers at work, but he would ...
— In The Heart Of The Rockies • G. A. Henty

... the troops, and placed his camp about Caudium as much out of view as possible. From thence he sent to Calatia, where he heard that the Roman consuls were encamped, ten soldiers, in the habit of shepherds, and ordered them to keep some cattle feeding in several different places, at a small distance from the Roman posts; and that, when they fell in with any of their foragers, they should all agree in the same story, that the legions of the Samnites were then in Apulia, that they were besieging Luceria ...
— The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six • Titus Livius

... detest it, think they ought not to have been called upon to assist, and the poor representatives of the smaller Courts do not at all fancy the expense of fine equipages, or the mortification of exhibiting mean ones. This arrangement was matter of negotiation for several days, and (the Lord knows why) the Government pertinaciously insisted on it. Public opinion has declared against it, and now they begin to see that they have done a very foolish thing, odious to the Corps Diplomatique and unpleasing ...
— The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) - A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 - (Volume 1 of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville

... neighborhood tends to lose much of the significance which it possessed in simpler and more primitive forms of society. The easy means of communication and of transportation, which enables individuals to distribute their attention and to live at the same time in several different worlds, tends to destroy the permanency and intimacy of the neighborhood. Further than that, where individuals of the same race or of the same vocation live together in segregated groups, neighborhood sentiment tends to fuse together with racial antagonisms ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... crops you have mentioned, and if so, how do they compare with the price realized by your laborers at home? —A. Our laborers realize the prices of the Northwest. We ship the articles for them. For instance, a negro has several barrels of potatoes; I consign them to my merchants in Saint Louis, and have them ...
— Black and White - Land, Labor, and Politics in the South • Timothy Thomas Fortune


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