Individual \In`di*vid"u*al\, n.

1. A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person. --Cowper.

An object which is in the strict and primary sense one, and can not be logically divided, is called an individual. --Whately.

That individuals die, his will ordains. --Dryden.

2. (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.
   (b) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Individual \In`di*vid"u*al\ (?; 135), a. [L. individuus indivisible; pref. in- not + dividuus divisible, fr. dividere to divide: cf. F. individuel. See Divide.]

1. Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.

Mind has a being of its own, distinct from that of all other things, and is pure, unmingled, individual substance. --A. Tucker.

United as one individual soul. --Milton.

2. Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)