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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AND, conj.
And is a conjunction, connective or conjoining word. It signifies that a word or part of a sentence is to be added to what precedes. Thus, give me an apple and an orange; that is, give me an apple, add or give in addition to that, an orange. John and Peter and James rode to New York, that is, John rode to New York; add or further, Peter rode to New York; add James rode to New York.

Merriam Webster's

conjunction Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German unti and Date: before 12th century 1. — used as a function word to indicate connection or addition especially of items within the same class or type; used to join sentence elements of the same grammatical rank or function 2. a. — used as a function word to express logical modification, consequence, antithesis, or supplementary explanation b. — used as a function word to join one finite verb (as go, come, try) to another so that together they are logically equivalent to an infinitive of purpose <come and see me> 3. obsolete if 4. — used in logic to form a conjunction

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1949 a logical operator that requires both of two inputs to be present or two conditions to be met for an output to be made or a statement to be executed

Oxford Reference Dictionary

conj. 1 a connecting words, clauses, or sentences, that are to be taken jointly (cakes and buns; white and brown bread; buy and sell; two hundred and forty). b implying progression (better and better). c implying causation (do that and I'll hit you; she hit him and he cried). d implying great duration (he cried and cried). e implying a great number (miles and miles). f implying addition (two and two are four). g implying variety (there are books and books). h implying succession (walking two and two). 2 colloq. to (try and open it). 3 in relation to (Britain and the EEC). Phrases and idioms: and/or either or both of two stated possibilities (usually restricted to legal and commercial use). Etymology: OE and

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

And And, conj. [AS. and; akin to OS. endi, Icel. enda, OHG. anti, enti, inti, unti, G. und, D. en, OD. ende. Cf, An if, Ante-.] 1. 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, --Schmidt's Shak. Lex. 2. In order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go. At least to try and teach the erring soul. --Milton. 3. It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive. When that I was and a little tiny boy. --Shak. 4. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. You use and to link two or more words, groups, or clauses. When he returned, she and Simon had already gone... Between 1914 and 1920 large parts of Albania were occupied by the Italians... I'm going to write good jokes and become a good comedian... I'm 53 and I'm very happy. CONJ 2. You use and to link two words or phrases that are the same in order to emphasize the degree of something, or to suggest that something continues or increases over a period of time. Learning becomes more and more difficult as we get older... We talked for hours and hours... He lay down on the floor and cried and cried. CONJ [emphasis] 3. You use and to link two statements about events when one of the events follows the other. I waved goodbye and went down the stone harbour steps... = then CONJ 4. You use and to link two statements when the second statement continues the point that has been made in the first statement. You could only really tell the effects of the disease in the long term, and five years wasn't long enough... CONJ 5. You use and to link two clauses when the second clause is a result of the first clause. All through yesterday crowds have been arriving and by midnight thousands of people packed the square. CONJ 6. You use and to interrupt yourself in order to make a comment on what you are saying. As Downing claims, and as we noted above, reading is best established when the child has an intimate knowledge of the language... CONJ 7. You use and at the beginning of a sentence to introduce something else that you want to add to what you have just said. Some people think that starting a sentence with and is ungrammatical, but it is now quite common in both spoken and written English. Commuter airlines fly to out-of-the-way places. And business travelers are the ones who go to those locations. CONJ 8. You use and to introduce a question which follows logically from what someone has just said. 'He used to be so handsome.'—'And now?'... CONJ 9. And is used by broadcasters and people making announcements to change a topic or to start talking about a topic they have just mentioned. And now the drought in Sudan... CONJ 10. You use and to indicate that two numbers are to be added together. What does two and two make? = plus CONJ 11. And is used before a fraction that comes after a whole number. McCain spent five and a half years in a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam. ...fourteen and a quarter per cent. CONJ 12. You use and in numbers larger than one hundred, after the words 'hundred' or 'thousand' and before other numbers. ...three thousand and twenty-six pounds. CONJ

Airports

Landing Facility Type	AIRPORT
Airport Code	AND
EFF_DATE	02/16/2006
FAA Region	ASO
FAA District	ATL
State	SC
State	SOUTH CAROLINA
County	ANDERSON
County State	SC
City Name	ANDERSON
Full Name	ANDERSON RGNL
Owner Type	PU
Facility Use	PU
Facility City, State, Zip	"ANDERSON, SC 29626"
Elevation	782
Aeronautical chart on which the airport facility appears	ATLANTA
Distance from the central business district of the associated city to the airport in nautical miles	03
Direction of airport from the central business district of the associated city	SW
Airport Certification Type and Date	I LU 12/1992
NASP/Federal Agreement Code	NGY3
Customs international airport	N
Customs Landing Rights Airport	N
Joint Use	N
Military Landing Rights	Y
Control Tower	N
Based Single Engine General Aviation Aircraft	063
Based Multi-engine general aviation aircraft	011
Based Jet engine general aviation aircraft	001
Based Helicopters	005
Commercial Services	000026
Air Taxi	004500
General Aviation, Local Operations	020000
General Aviation - Itinerant Operations	028600
Military Aircraft Operations	000400
Latitude	34.4949444444
Longitude	-82.7090277778
State FIPS code	45
State Postal Code	SC
Total domestic enplanements (inbound plus outbound)	88
Version	09