Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SEV'ER-AL, n.

1. Each particular, or a small number, singly taken. Several of them neither rose from any conspicuous family, nor left any behind them. Addison. There was not time enough to hear / The severals. – Shak. [This latter use, in the plural, is now infrequent or obsolete.]
2. An inclosed or separate place; inclosed ground; as, they had their several for the heathen, their several for their own people; put a beast into a several. – Hooker. Bacon. [These applications are nearly or wholly obsolete.] In several, in a state of separation. Where pastures in several be. [Little used.] – Tusser.