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What does "and" mean?

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

Additional senses

  1. 2.It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive. When that I was and a little tiny boy. Shak.
  2. 3.If; though. See An, conj. [Obs.] Chaucer. As they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. Bacon. 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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