a. or a. pron. [ OE. eche, ælc, elk, ilk, AS. ælc; ā always + gelīc like; akin to OD. iegelik, OHG. ēogilīh, MHG. iegelīch, G. jeglich. √209. See 3d Aye, Like, and cf. Either, Every, Ilk. ] 1. Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you. “Each of the combatants.” Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ To each corresponds other. “Let each esteem other better than himself.” Each other, used elliptically for each the other. It is our duty to assist each other; that is, it is our duty, each to assist the other, each being in the nominative and other in the objective case. [ 1913 Webster ] It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another's throats without hatred. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ] Let each
His adamantine coat gird well. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] In each cheek appears a pretty dimple. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] Then draw we nearer day by day,
Each to his brethren, all to God. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ] The oak and the elm have each a distinct character. Gilpin. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Every; -- sometimes used interchangeably with every. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] I know each lane and every alley green. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] In short each man's happiness depends upon himself. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ This use of each for every, though common in Scotland and in America, is now un-English. Fitzed. Hall. Syn. -- See Every. [ 1913 Webster ] | 
