several

several
/sev"euhr euhl, sev"reuhl/, adj.
1. being more than two but fewer than many in number or kind: several ways of doing it.
2. respective; individual: They went their several ways.
3. separate; different: several occasions.
4. single; particular.
5. Law. binding two or more persons who may be sued separately on a common obligation.
n.
6. several persons or things; a few; some.
[1375-1425; late ME < AF < ML separalis, equiv. to L separ separate + -alis -AL1]

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