Every kind of thing is laid up several in barns or
storehoudses. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
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.'' --Tusser.
Each several ship a victory did gain. --Dryden.
Each might his several province well command, Would
all but stoop to what they understand. --Pope.
2. Diverse; different; various. --Spenser.
Habits and faculties, several, and to be
distinguished. --Bacon.
Four several armies to the field are led. --Dryden.
3. Consisting of a number more than two, but not very many;
divers; sundry; as, several persons were present when the
event took place.