Oth"er (?), adv. Otherwise. "It shall none other be." Chaucer. "If you think
other." Shak.
Oth"er , pron. & a. [AS. ōðer; akin to OS.
āðar, ōðar, D. & G.
ander, OHG. andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. anþar, Skr. antara: cf. L.
alter; all orig.
comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other.
√180. Cf. Alter.]
[Formerly other was used both as singular and plural.]
1. Different from that which, or the
one who, has
been specified; not the same; not
identical; additional; second of two.
Each of them
made other for to win.
Chaucer. Whosoever shall smite thee on
thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Matt. v. 39.
2. Not this, but the
contrary; opposite; as, the other side of a river.
3. Alternate; second; -- used
esp. in connection with every; as, every other day, that is, each
alternate day, every second day.
4. Left, as opposed to right. [Obs.]
A distaff in her other hand she had.
Spenser. &fist; Other is a
correlative adjective, or adjective pronoun, often in contrast with one, some, that, this, etc.
The one shall be taken, and the other left.
Matt. xxiv.
41. And some fell among thorns . . . but other fell into good ground.
Matt.
xiii. 7, 8. It is also used, by
ellipsis, with a noun, expressed or understood.
To write this, or to
design the other.
Dryden. It is written
with the indefinite article as one word,
another; is used with each, indicating a reciprocal action or relation; and is employed absolutely, or eliptically for other thing, or other person, in which case it
may have a plural.
The fool and the
brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to
others.
Ps. xlix. 10. If he is trimming, others are true.
Thackeray. Other is sometimes followed by but, beside, or besides; but oftener by than.
No
other but such a one as he.
Coleridge. Other
lords beside thee have had dominion over us.
Is. xxvi.
13. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid.
1 Cor. iii.
11. The whole seven years of . . . ignominy had been little other than a preparation for this very hour.
Hawthorne. Other some, some others. [Obs. or Prov.
Eng.] -- The other day, at a
certain time past, not distant, but indefinite; not long ago; recently; rarely, the third day
past.
Bind my hair
up: as't was yesterday?
No, nor t' other day.
B. Jonson.
Oth"er (ŭ&thlig;"&etilde;r),
conj. [See Or.]
Either; -- used
with other or or for
its correlative (as either . . . or are now
used). [Obs.]
Other
of chalk, other of glass.
Chaucer.
Hear it pronounced