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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