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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DE

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.
Let each
His adamantine coat gird well.
Milton.
In each cheek appears a pretty dimple.
Shak.
Then draw we nearer day by day,
Each to his brethren, all to God.
Keble.
The oak and the elm have each a distinct character.
Gilpin.

2. Every; -- sometimes used interchangeably with every. Shak.

I know each lane and every alley green.
Milton.
In short each man's happiness depends upon himself.
Sterne.

This use of each for every, though common in Scotland and in America, is now un-English. Fitzed. Hall.

Syn. -- See Every.

Each"where` (?), adv. Everywhere. [Obs.]

The sky eachwhere did show full bright and fair.
Spenser.

Ead"ish (?), n. See Eddish.


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