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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
other \oth"er\ u^th"~er, conj. see or.
   either; -- used with other or or for its correlative as
   either . . . or are now used. obs.
   1913 webster

         other of chalk, other of glass.          --chaucer.
   1913 webster
see also:
or 
[2] : 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.
          1913 webster
   1. different from that which, or the one who, has been
      specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
      of two.
      1913 webster

            each of them made other for to win.   --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn
            to him the other also.                --matt. v. 39.
      1913 webster

   2. not this, but the contrary; opposite; as, the other side
      of a river.
      1913 webster

   3. alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with every;
      as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every
      second day.
      1913 webster

   4. left, as opposed to right. obs.
      1913 webster

            a distaff in her other hand she had.  --spenser.
      1913 webster

   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.
         1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            bind my hair up: as 't was yesterday?
            no, nor t' other day.                 --b. jonson.
      1913 webster
see also:
alter one some that this other some 
the other day 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
other \oth"er\ u^th"~er, adv.
   otherwise. "it shall none other be." --chaucer. "if you think
   other." --shak.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
other
     adj 1: not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied;
            "today isn't any other day"- the white queen; "the
            construction of highways and other public works"; "he
            asked for other employment"; "any other person would
            tell the truth"; "his other books are still in
            storage"; "then we looked at the other house";
            "hearing was good in his other ear"; "the other sex";
            "she lived on the other side of the street from me";
            "went in the other direction" ant: same
     2: further or added; "called for additional troops"; "need
        extra help"; "an extra pair of shoes"; "i have no other
        shoes"; "there are other possibilities" syn: extra, othera,
         additional
     3: recently past; "the other evening" syn: othera
     4: of the distant past; "the early inhabitants of europe";
        "former generations"; "in other times" syn: earlya, formera,
         othera
     5: very unusual; different in character or quality from the
        normal or expected; "a strange, other dimension...where
        his powers seemed to fail"- lance morrow
see also:
same extra othera additional earlya formera 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
100 moby thesaurus words for "other":
   accessory, accident, accidental, added, addendum, addition,
   additional, adjunct, alien, ancillary, another, apart, appendage,
   appurtenance, autre chose, auxiliary, collateral, contingency,
   contingent, contributory, detached, different story,
   different thing, disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disparate,
   disrelated, dissimilar, dissociated, distant, divergent, diverse,
   else, exotic, extra, extraneous, farther, foreign, fresh, further,
   happenstance, incidental, incommensurable, incomparable,
   independent, inessential, insular, irrelative, isolated,
   mere chance, more, new, no such thing, nonessential, not that sort,
   not the same, not the type, not-self, of a sort, of another sort,
   of sorts, other than, otherwise, outlandish, peculiar, plus,
   quite another thing, rare, removed, renewed, secondary, segregate,
   separate, separated, something else, something else again, spare,
   special, strange, subsidiary, sui generis, superaddition,
   supernumerary, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, surplus,
   ulterior, unaffiliated, unalike, unallied, unassociated,
   unconnected, unequal, unessential, unique, unlike, unrelatable,
   unrelated





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