Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

Each, 1) used of an indefinite number, a) == every, any: “would move e. part in me that were but sensible,” Ven. 436. “e. envious brier his weary legs doth scratch, e. shadow makes him stop, e. murmur stay,” Ven. 436 “from whom e. lamp and shining star doth borrow,” Ven. 436 Lucr. 309. Lucr. 309 Lucr. 309 Lucr. 309 Sonn. 7, 2. 48, 2. 127, 5. Pilgr. 92. Tp. I, 2, 329. Tp. I, 2, 329 III, 3, 48. V, 251. Gentl. I, 2, 119. II, 7, 35. IV, 2, 51. Wiv. V, 5, 67. LLL I, 1, 107. Mids. V, 405. Mids. V, 405 Tw. V, 258. Wint. II, 3, 154. IV, 4, 1. IV, 4, 1 John III, 4, 128. H4A I, 1, 64. V, 2, 93. H4B I, 1, 158. H6B III, 1, 221. H6C V, 6, 12. R3 V, 3, 25. R3 V, 3, 25 Tim. IV, 3, 423 etc. etc. e. day == every day, daily: Sonn. 108, 6. R2 I, 1, 22. H6B III, 1, 63. Alternating with every: “e. passion labours so, that every present sorrow seemeth chief,” Ven. 969. e. one == every one: “the locks between her chamber and his will, e. one by him enforced,” Lucr. 303. “e. one, tripping on his toe, will be here,” Tp. IV, 46. “she would to e. one sip,” Wint. IV, 4, 62. “through this grate I count e. one and view the Frenchmen,” H6A I, 4, 60. “thanks to all at once and to e. one,” Mcb. V, 8, 74. “e. particular saint,” Meas. V, 243. “e. several paper,” Gentl. I, 2, 108. Mids. V, 424. H4B IV, 1, 170. Mcb. IV, 3, 96. Per. IV, 4, 6. bide the penance “of e. three years' day,” LLL I, 1, 115 (== of every day in the space of three years). “at e. his needless heavings,” Wint. II, 3, 35.
b) every one, every body: “like a school broke up, e. hurries toward his home,” H4B IV, 2, 105. “compel from e. the sixth part of his substance,” H8 I, 2, 57. H8 I, 2, 57 “gazed e. on other,” R3 III, 7, 26. “men of heart looked wondering e. on other,” Cor. V, 6, 100. “this shouldering of e. other in the court,” H6A IV, 1, 189. “whiles they e. other cross,” IV, 3, 52.
2) used of a definite and limited number; a) joined to a subst.: “in e. cheek appears a pretty dimple,” Ven. 242. “with e. end of thy blue bow,” Tp. IV, 80. “in e. eye one,” Merch. V, 245. “the true succeeders of e. royal house,” R3 V, 5, 30. “e. man apart,” Tim. V, 1, 110. e. one: “e. one with ireful passion,” Err. V, 151. “the whole world again cannot pick out five such, take e. one in his vein,” LLL V, 2, 548. e. one to this office, Shr. Ind. I, 73. V, 2, 66. Wint. V, 3, 153. R2 III, 2, 132. H6C II, 1, 26. H6C II, 1, 26 Tit. III, 1, 278. Cymb. V, 3, 49.
b) absolutely, == every one out of a certain number: “e. leaning on their elbows,” Ven. 44. “e. do in consent shake hands,” Sonn. 28, 5. “e. doth good turns unto the other,” 47, 2. Wiv. V, 5, 27. Ado V, 3, 29. LLL IV, 3, 162. LLL IV, 3, 162 V, 2, 148. All's II, 3, 63. IV, 3, 187. H5 III, 7, 169. H6B II, 4, 61. Troil. IV, 1, 65. Tim. IV, 2, 27. Mcb. I, 3, 44 etc. e. other, α) separated by a prepos.: “which e. to other hath so strongly sworn,” LLL I, 1, 309. “wink e. at other,” Mids. III, 2, 239. Tim. V, 5, 83. Mcb. I, 3, 155. Ant. II, 2, 138. β) placed together: “white and red e. other did destroy,” Ven. 346. Wiv. II, 2, 114. Mids. III, 2, 363. As V, 2, 11. Tw. V, 222. John II, 406. R2 I, 1, 27. I, 3, 184. H5 III, 2, 146. R3 I, 3, 189. I, 4, 243. Troil. I, 3, 391. Ant. III, 6, 78. “both crystals, where they viewed e. other's sorrow,” Ven. 963. “they interchange e. other's seat,” Lucr. 70. “both stood wondering e. other's chance,” Lucr. 70 “we still did meet e. other's man,” Err. V, 386. H5 IV Chor. H5 IV Chor. V, 2, 379. R3 II, 2, 114.
Each, alone, == each other: “but being both from me, both to e. friend, I guess one angel in another's hell,” Sonn. 144, 11. “ten masts at e. make not the altitude which thou hast perpendicularly fell,” Lr. IV, 6, 53 (== each joined to another). cf. “matched in mouth like bells, e. under e.” Mids. IV, 1, 129. “mark how one string, sweet husband to another, strikes e. in e. by mutual ordering,” Sonn. 8, 10 (== the strings strike each other mutually, one making the other sound).