Sev·er·al, n.
1. Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual. [Obs.]
There was not time enough to hear . . .
The severals. --Shak.
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. --Addison.
3. 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.”
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