资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

It is also used, by ellipsis, with a noun, expressed or
understood.

      To write this, or to design the other.      --Dryden.
It is written with the indefinite article as one word, another;
is used with each, indicating a reciprocal action or relation;
and is employed absolutely, or eliptically for other thing, or
other person, in which case it may have a plural.

      The fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their
      wealth to others.                           --Ps. xlix.
                                                  10.

      If he is trimming, others are true.         --Thackeray.
Other is sometimes followed by but, beside, or besides; but
oftener by than.

      No other but such a one as he.              --Coleridge.

      Other lords beside thee have had dominion over us. --Is.
                                                  xxvi. 13.

      For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid. --1
                                                  Cor. iii. 11.

      The whole seven years of . . . ignominy had been little
      other than a preparation for this very hour. --Hawthorne.

   {Other some}, some others. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

   {The other day}, at a certain time past, not distant, but
      indefinite; not long ago; recently; rarely, the third day
      past.

            Bind my hair up: as't was yesterday? No, nor t'
            other day.                            --B. Jonson.