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Foot to foot they stood and hammered each other, and gradually Murk began wearing the other man down As for Sidney Prale, now that he had but the one thug against him, he fought with skill and cunning, knowing that the other was a bit the stronger, but realizing that he would be victor if he used reasonable care His flare of anger had passed, and now he was fighting like a clever pugilist.

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  1. adjective Being the remaining one of two or more: the other ear.
  2. adjective Being the remaining ones of several: His other books are still in storage.
  3. adjective Different from that or those implied or specified: Any other person would tell the truth.
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  • That would work, except for - one candidate or the other is a bigger jackass than either of the candidates four years previous … or the region is different (one in the deep south, one not, for example). —  House of Eratosthenes
  • I keep hearing people say one candidate or the other is the "lesser of two evils". —  XYHD.tv
  • And the other--the other Why, the other was a fraud, of course," exclaimed Josie CHAPTER XXVI WHAT MARY LOUISE ACCOMPLISHED I am quite sure it is unnecessary to relate in detail the scene that followed Mary Louise's introduction or the excited inquiries and explanations which naturally ensued. —  Mary Louise Solves a Mystery
  • Foot to foot they stood and hammered each other, and gradually Murk began wearing the other man down As for Sidney Prale, now that he had but the one thug against him, he fought with skill and cunning, knowing that the other was a bit the stronger, but realizing that he would be victor if he used reasonable care His flare of anger had passed, and now he was fighting like a clever pugilist. —  The Brand of Silence A Detective Story
  • The other, my charmer, the other is our man. —  Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
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  1. Middle English, from Old English ōther; see al-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English other, from Anglo-Saxon ōther (in inflexion often syncopated ōthr-) = Old Saxon ōthar, ōdhar, ōdher, ādhar, andar = OFries. other, oder, or, also ander = Middle Dutch, Dutch ander = Middle Low German Low German ander = Old High German andar, ander, Middle High German G. ander = Icelandic annarr = Swedish annan = Danish anden = Gothic (Moesogothic) anthar, other, second, different, = Latin alter (for *anter? — assimilated to alius, other: see else) (later Italian altro = Spanish otro = Portuguese outro = Provencal altre, autre = Old French altre, autre, French autre), other, = Old Bulgarian vŭtorŭ = Bohemian úterý = Polish wtory = Russian vtorno-, second, = Lithuanian antras = Lettish ōtrs = Old Prussian antars = Sanskrit antara, anyatara, other; with comparative suffix -ther = L. -ter = Greek -τερος, etc., from a base seen in Old Bulgarian onŭ = Servian Bohemian Polish on = Russian onŭ, he, that, = Sanskrit anya, *ana, that.
  2. from Middle English other; from other, a.
  3. Middle English, also outher, owther; a variant of either, q. v.
  4. Middle English, also outher, etc.; a variant of either, and the fuller form of or: see either and or.
 

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