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English Dictionary: Either	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Either
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
either adv after a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like `likewise' or `also'; "he isn't stupid, but he isn't exactly a genius either"; "I don't know either"; "if you don't order dessert I won't either"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Either \Ei"ther\ (?; 277), a. & pron. [OE. either, aither, AS. [?]g[?]er, [?]ghw[91][?]er (akin to OHG. [?]ogiwedar, MHG. iegeweder); [be] + ge + hw[91][?]er 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).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Either \Ei"ther\, conj. Either precedes two, or more, co[94]rdinate 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. Note: 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.