English

Alternative forms

• and if

Conjunction

an if

1. (archaic) If.
   • 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:

     Ye are the salt of the erthe. but and if the salt be once unsavery, what can be salted therwith?

   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, V.1:

     Noting this penury, to my selfe I said, An if a man did need a poyson now, Whose sale is present death in Mantua, Here liues a Caitiffe wretch would sell it him.

Anagrams

• fain, naif, naïf