Note: To each corresponds other. ``Let each esteem other
better than himself.'' Each other, used elliptically
for each the other. It is our duty to assist each
other; that is, it is our duty, each to assist the
other, each being in the nominative and other in the
objective case.
It is a bad thing that men should hate each
other; but it is far worse that they should
contract the habit of cutting one another's
throats without hatred. --Macaulay.
Let each His adamantine coat gird well. --Milton.
In each cheek appears a pretty dimple. --Shak.
Then draw we nearer day by day, Each to his
brethren, all to God. --Keble.
The oak and the elm have each a distinct
character. --Gilpin.
2. Every; -- sometimes used interchangeably with every.
--Shak.
I know each lane and every alley green. --Milton.
In short each man's happiness depends upon himself.
--Sterne.
Note: This use of each for every, though common in Scotland
and in America, is now un-English. --Fitzed. Hall.