An*oth"er (#), pron. & a. [An a, one + other.] 1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more.
Shak.
Would serve to scale another Hero's tower.
Shak.
2. Not the same; different.
He winks, and turns his lips another way.
Shak.
3. Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.
Prov. xxvii. 2.
While I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
John v. 7.
⇒ As a pronoun another may have a possessive another's, pl. others, poss. pl. other'. It is much used in opposition to one; as, one went one way, another another. It is also used with one, in a reciprocal sense; as, "love one another," that is, let each love the other or others. "These two imparadised in one another's arms."
Milton.
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