SEVER, St, a town of France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Landes, in a fertile tract on the left bank of the Adour, 49 miles E.N.E. of Bayonne. This well-built place contains several fine edifices, among which are a magnificent church, a court-house, hospital, and barracks. It has a college, a court of law, tanneries, potteries, and oil mills. The chief articles of trade are corn, wine, brandy, and lithographic stones. Pop. (1856) 4679.