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Webster 1913 Edition
And
And
,c
onj.
1.
A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.
(b) By a rhetorical figure, notions, one of which is modificatory of the other, are connected by and; as, “the tediousness and process of my travel,” that is, the tedious process, etc.; “thy fair and outward character,” that is, thy outwardly fair character, Schmidt’s Shak. Lex.
2.
In order to; – used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go.
At least to try
and
teach the erring soul. Milton.
3.
It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive.
When that I was
and
a little tiny boy. Shakespeare
4.
If; though. See
An
, c
onj.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
As they will set an house on fire,
and
it were but to roast their eggs. Bacon.
And so forth
, and others; and the rest; and similar things; and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc. (et cetera), or &c., is usually read and so forth.
Webster 1828 Edition
And
AND
, conj.And is a conjunction, connective or conjoining word. It signifies that a word or part of a sentence is to be added to what precedes. Thus, give me an apple and an orange; that is, give me an apple, add or give in addition to that, an orange. John and Peter and James rode to New York, that is, John rode to New York; add or further, Peter rode to New York; add James rode to New York.