4 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Either \Ei"ther\, conj.
Either precedes two, or more, co["o]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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Either \Ei"ther\ ([=e]"[th][~e]r or [imac]"[th][~e]r; 277), adjective &
pronoun [OE. either, aither, AS. [=ae]g[eth]er,
[=ae]ghw[ae][eth]er (akin to OHG. [=e]ogiwedar, MHG.
iegeweder); [=a] + ge + hw[ae][eth]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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
either
adverb: 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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "either":
a certain, a deux, an, any, any one, anybody, anyone, anything,
atomic, aught, both, correspondingly, exclusive, for two,
identically, in kind, in like manner, in that way, individual,
indivisible, integral, irreducible, like, like that, like this,
likewise, lone, monadic, monistic, one, similarly, simple, single,
singular, so, sole, solid, solitary, tete-a-tete, the two, thus,
unanalyzable, undivided, uniform, unique, unitary, whole
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