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." Note: 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. "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." "Let each His adamantine coat gird well." "In each cheek appears a pretty dimple." "Then draw we nearer day by day, Each to his brethren, all to God." "The oak and the elm have each a distinct character."
2.Every; sometimes used interchangeably with every. "I know each lane and every alley green." "In short each man's happiness depends upon himself." Note: This use of each for every, though common in Scotland and in America, is now un-English.
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