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pronoun

another pron., adj.

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." "Would serve to scale another Hero's tower."

Not the same; different. "He winks, and turns his lips another way."

Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else. "Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth." "While I am coming, another steppeth down before me." Note: 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."

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... under-groom of the ostlery, Husbanding it in work-day yeomanry. Lo! the long date of those expired days, Which the inspired Merlin's word foresays; When dunghill peasants shall be dight as kings, Then one confusion another brings: Then farewell, fairest age, the world's best days, Thriving in ill, as it ...

— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

... their means is truly great. Typical recipes will be given showing what basic dyes are available and how they can be combined together. The dyer, however, who knows how to produce shades by combining one dye-stuff with another is able to get many more shades than space will ...

— The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics - A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student • Franklin Beech

... properly prepare it. We give three good recipes. One method is to chip up lean beef, put it in a porcelain or tin saucepan, cover it with cold water, and bring it up to just below the boiling point, at which temperature retain it for ten minutes, then season and serve. Another method is similar to the foregoing, with this difference, that the juices of the meat are squeezed through a piece of muslin or crash, making the tea richer. Another way, which we consider preferable to either of the above, is to take lean ...

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... pleasant, peaceful life for me. I said to myself, 'Is the lost place regained? Have I got back?' My mistress died. New people came into our neighborhood. There was a young lady among them—my master began to think of another wife. I have the misfortune (in my situation) to be what is called a handsome woman; I rouse the curiosity of strangers. The new people asked questions about me; my master's answers did not satisfy them. In a word, they found me out. The old story again! ...

— The New Magdalen • Wilkie Collins

... II. Another order prevailed in the Latin Church, viz., the Gospels, the Acts, the Epistles of Paul, the Catholic Epistles, and the Apocalypse. This appears in Melito, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Augustine, Jerome, the Vulgate, the Councils ...

— The Canon of the Bible • Samuel Davidson

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