pron. & a. [ An a, one + other. ] 1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. [ 1913 Webster ]

Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not the same; different. [ 1913 Webster ]

He winks, and turns his lips another way. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth. Prov. xxvii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

While I am coming, another steppeth down before me. John v. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ As a pronoun another may have a possessive another's, pl. others, poss. pl. other'. It is much used in opposition to one; as, one went one way, another another. It is also used with one, in a reciprocal sense; as, “love one another, ” that is, let each love the other or others. “These two imparadised in one another's arms.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Corrupted fr. another-gates. ] Of another kind. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Another + gate, or gait, way. Cf. Algates. ] Of another sort. [ Obs. ] “Another-gates adventure.” Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Corrupted fr. another-gates. ] Of another sort. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]