[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

other \oth"er\, pron.  a. as. =oether; akin to os.
   =aethar, =oethar, d.  g. ander, ohg. andar, icel.
   annarr, sw. annan, dan. anden, goth. anthornar, skr.
   antara: cf. l. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. skr. anya
   other. root180. cf. alter.

   usage: formerly other was used both as singular and plural.
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   1. different from that which, or the one who, has been
      specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
      of two.
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            each of them made other for to win.   --chaucer.
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            whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn
            to him the other also.                --matt. v. 39.
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   2. not this, but the contrary; opposite; as, the other side
      of a river.
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   3. alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with every;
      as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every
      second day.
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   4. left, as opposed to right. obs.
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            a distaff in her other hand she had.  --spenser.
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   note: 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.
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   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.
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            bind my hair up: as 't was yesterday?
            no, nor t' other day.                 --b. jonson.
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see also:
alter one some that this other some 
the other day 

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