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English Dictionary: sundry by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sundry
adj
  1. consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds; "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
    Synonym(s): assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, sundry(a)
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. [bd]Sundry
            wines.[b8] --Chaucer. [bd]Sundry weighty reasons.[b8]
            --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.
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