A distaff in her other hand she had.
Spenser.
Other is a correlative adjective, or adjective pronoun, often in
contrast with one, some, that, this, etc.
The one shall be taken, and the other left.
Matt. xxiv. 41.
And some fell among thorns . . . but other fell into good ground.
Matt. xiii. 7, 8.
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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.