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conjunction

And conj.

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. Note: (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,

In order to; used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go. "At least to try and teach the erring soul."

It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive. "When that I was and a little tiny boy."

If; though. See An, conj. (Obs.) "As they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs."

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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