Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Several \Sev"er*al\, n.
   1. Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an
      individual. [Obs.]

            There was not time enough to hear . . . The
            severals.                             --Shak.

   2. Persons oe objects, more than two, but not very many.

            Several of them neither rose from any conspicuous
            family, nor left any behind them.     --Addison.

   3. An inclosed or separate place; inclosure. [Obs.]

            They had their several for heathen nations, their
            several for the people of their own nation.
                                                  --Hooker.

   {In several}, in a state of separation. [R.] ``Where pastures
      in several be.'' --Tusser.