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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sundry  \Sun"dry\,  a.  [OE.  sundry,  sondry,  AS  syndrig  fr 
  sundor  asunder.  See  {Sunder},  v.  t.] 
  1.  Several;  divers;  more  than  one  or  two  various.  ``Sundry 
  wines.''  --Chaucer.  ``Sundry  weighty  reasons.''  --Shak. 
 
  With  many  a  sound  of  sundry  melody.  --Chaucer. 
 
  Sundry  foes  the  rural  realm  surround.  --Dryden. 
 
  2.  Separate;  diverse.  [Obs.] 
 
  Every  church  almost  had  the  Bible  of  a  sundry 
  translation.  --Coleridge. 
 
  {All  and  sundry},  all  collectively,  and  each  separately. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sundry 
  adj  :  consisting  of  a  haphazard  assortment  of  different  kinds 
  (even  to  the  point  of  incongruity);  "an  arrangement  of 
  assorted  spring  flowers";  "assorted  sizes"; 
  "miscellaneous  accessories";  "a  mixed  program  of 
  baroque  and  contemporary  music";  "a  motley  crew"; 
  "sundry  sciences  commonly  known  as  social"- 
  I.A.Richards  [syn:  {assorted},  {miscellaneous},  {mixed}, 
  {motley},  {sundry(a)}] 
  n  :  miscellaneous  unspecified  artifacts;  "the  trunk  was  full  of 
  stuff"  [syn:  {whatchamacallit},  {stuff},  {whatsis},  {sundries}]




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