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- One or other of two.
I don't mind whether your mother or father attends - you can bring either parent.
- Each of two; both (used with a singular noun)
The room has a door at either end.
- One or the other of two.
I don't mind whether your mother or father attends - you can bring either.
- Too (after a negative).
I don't like him and I don't like her either.
- Introduces the first of two options, the second of which is introduced by or.
Either you eat your dinner or you go to your room.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Ei"ther (ē"&thlig;&etilde;r or
ī"&thlig;&etilde;r; 277), a. & pron. [OE.
either, aither, AS. &aemacr;gðer,
&aemacr;ghwæðer (akin to OHG.
ēogiwedar, MHG. iegeweder); ā +
ge + hwæðer whether. See Each, and
Whether, and cf. Or, conj.] 1.
One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two
things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any
one.
Lepidus flatters both,
Of both is flattered; but he neither loves,
Nor either cares for him. Shak.
Scarce a palm of ground could be gotten by
either of the three. Bacon.
There have been three talkers in Great British,
either of whom would illustrate what I say about
dogmatists. Holmes.
2. Each of two; the one and the other; both;
-- formerly, also, each of any number.
His flowing hair
In curls on either cheek played.
Milton.
On either side . . . was there the tree of
life. Rev. xxii. 2.
The extreme right and left of either army never
engaged. Jowett (Thucyd).
Ei"ther, conj. Either precedes
two, or more, coördinate words or phrases, and is introductory
to an alternative. It is correlative to or.
Either he is talking, or he is pursuing,
or he is in a journey, or peradventure he
sleepeth. 1 Kings xviii. 27.
Few writers hesitate to use either in what is
called a triple alternative; such as, We must either stay
where we are, proceed, or recede. Latham.
&fist; Either was formerly sometimes used without any
correlation, and where we should now use or.
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries?
either a vine, figs? James iii. 12.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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