\Sev"er*al\, a. [OF., fr. LL. separalis, fr. L. separ
separate, different. See {Sever}, {Separate}.]
1. Separate; distinct; particular; single.
         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.

\Sev"er*al\, adv.
By itself; severally. [Obs.]
      Every kind of thing is laid up several in barns or
      storehoudses.                            --Robynson
                                               (More's
                                               Utopia).

\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.