Definition of Either

Ei´ther   Pronunciation: ē´thẽr or ī´thẽr; 277
a. & pron.1.One of two; the one or the other; - properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one.
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).
conj.1.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.
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs?
- James iii. 12.


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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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