And (&?;), conj. [AS.
and; akin to OS. endi, Icel. enda,
OHG. anti, enti, inti,
unti, G. und, D. en, OD. ende. Cf, An if, Ante-.]
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.
(a) It is sometimes used emphatically; as, "there are women and women," that is, two very different sorts of women.
(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.
Shak.
4. If; though. See An,
conj. [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.
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