Other /(ŭth"ẽr)/

Oth·er

Other

conj.
  1. Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). [Obs.]
    Other of chalk, other of glass.

Other

pron. & a.
  1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second of two.
    Each of them made other for to win.
    Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
    — Matt. v. 39.
  2. Not this, but the contrary; opposite; as, the other side of a river.
  3. Alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with every; as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every second day.
  4. Left, as opposed to right. [Obs.]
    A distaff in her other hand she had.
    The one shall be taken, and the other left.
    — Matt. xxiv. 41.
    Bind my hair up: as 't was yesterday? No, nor t' other day.

[Formerly other was used both as singular and plural.]

Other

adv.
  1. Otherwise.