a. [ Oto- + acoustic
[ So named from
‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr.
a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to otalgia. --
n. Pain in the ear; otalgia. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
n. [ Gr.
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 ]
pron. & a. [ AS. ōðer; akin to OS. āðar, ōðar, D. & G. ander, OHG. andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. anþar, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. √180. Cf. Alter. ]
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 ]
A distaff in her other hand she had. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
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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,
The other day,
No, nor t' other day. B. Jonson.