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.
Several
(Sev"er*al), adv. By itself; severally. [Obs.]
Every kind of thing is laid up several in barns or storehoudses.
Robynson Several
(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." Tusser.
Severality
(Sev`er*al"i*ty) n.; pl. Severalities Each particular taken singly; distinction. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Severalize
(Sev"er*al*ize) v. t. To distinguish. [Obs.]
Severally
(Sev"er*al*ly), adv. Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually.
There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself.
De Quincey. Severalty
(Sev"er*al*ty) n. A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual
right.
Forests which had never been owned in severalty.
Bancroft. Estate in severalty (Law), an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in
interest with any other person; — distinguished from joint tenancy, coparcenary, and common. Blackstone.
Severance
(Sev"er*ance) n.
1. The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation. Milman.
2. (Law) The act of dividing; the singling or severing of two or more that join, or are joined, in one writ; the
putting in several or separate pleas or answers by two or more disjointly; the destruction of the unity of
interest in a joint estate. Bouvier.
Severe
(Se*vere") a. [Compar. Severer ; superl. Severest.] [L. severus; perhaps akin to Gr. awe,
revered, holy, solemn, Goth. swikns innocent, chaste: cf. F. sévère. Cf. Asseverate, Persevere.]
