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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Of this kind: a single parent, one of many such people in the neighborhood.
2. adj. Of a kind specified or implied: a boy such as yourself.
3. adj. Of a degree or quality indicated: Their anxiety was such that they could not sleep.
4. adj. Of so extreme a degree or quality: never dreamed of such wealth.
5. adv. To so extreme a degree; so: such beautiful flowers; such a funny character.
6. adv. Very; especially: She has been in such poor health lately.
7. pro. Such a person or persons or thing or things: was the mayor and as such presided over the council; expected difficulties, and such occurred.
8. pro. Itself alone or within itself: Money as such will seldom bring total happiness.
9. pro. Someone or something implied or indicated: Such are the fortunes of war.
10. pro. Similar things or people; the like: pins, needles, and such.
11. idiom. such as For example.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Of that kind; of the like kind or degree; like; similar. Such always implies from its sense a comparison with another thing, either unexpressed, as being involved in the context (as, we have never before seen such a sight (sc. as this is); we cannot approve such proceedings (sc. as these are); such men (sc. as he is) are dangerous), or expressed, such being then followed by as or that before the thing which is the subject of comparison (as, we have never had such a time as the present; give your children such precepts as tend to make them wiser and better; the play is not such that I can recommend it). As in such constructions often becomes by ellipsis the apparent subject of the verb of the second clause: as, such persons as are concerned in this matter. It is to be noted that, as with other pronominal adjectives, the indefinite article a or an never immediately precedes such, but is placed between it and the noun to which it refers, or such comes after the noun preceded by the article: as, such a man; such an honor; I never saw a man such as he.
2. In Middle English such appears in another quasi-adverbial use, preceding a numeral, in the sense of ‘as much,’ or ‘as many’: as, such seven, ‘seven such’—that is, ‘seven times as many.’
3. Such without the correlative clause with as is often used emphatically, noting a high degree or a very good or very bad kind, the correlative clause being either obvious, as, he did not expect to come to such honor (sc. as he attained), or quite lost from view, as, such a time! he is such a liar!
4. The same as previously mentioned or specified; not other or different.
5. Of that class: especially in the phrase as such, ‘in that particular character.’
6. Some; certain: used to indicate or suggest a person or thing originally specified by a name or designation for winch the speaker, for reasons of brevity, of convenience or reserve, or from forgetfulness, prefers to substitute, or must substitute, a general phrase: often repeated, such or such, or such and such (even with a single subject, but in this case implying repetition of action or selection of instances).
7. Such a person or thing; more commonly with a plural reference, such persons or things: by ellipsis of the noun.
8. The same.

Wiktionary

1. adj. like this, that, these, those; Used to make a comparison with something implied by context.
2. adj. Used as an intensifier; roughly equivalent to very much of.
3. particularly used in formal documents any.
4. pro. A person, a thing, people, or things like the one or ones already mentioned.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; ; -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison.
2. adj. Having the particular quality or character specified.
3. adj. The same that; -- with as.
4. adj. Certain; -- representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.

WordNet 3.0

1. adv. to so extreme a degree
2. adj. of so extreme a degree or extent