Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (conj.) A particle that marks an alternative; as, you may read or may write, -- that is, you may do one of the things at your pleasure, but not both. It corresponds to either. You may ride either to London or to Windsor. It often connects a series of words or propositions, presenting a choice of either; as, he may study law, or medicine, or divinity, or he may enter into trade. 2. (prep. & adv.) Ere; before; sooner than. 3. (n.) Yellow or gold color, -- represented in drawing or engraving by small dots. 4. (n.) A noun suffix denoting an act; a state or quality; as in error, fervor, pallor, candor, etc. 5. (n.) A noun suffix denoting an agent or doer; as in auditor, one who hears; donor, one who gives; obligor, elevator. It is correlative to -ee. In general -or is appended to words of Latin, and -er to those of English, origin. See -er. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia OR or: The word is used once for either (1 Samuel 26:10), and is still in poetic use in this sense; as in, "Without or wave or wind" (Coleridge); "Or the bakke or some bone he breketh in his dzouthe" (Piers Plowman (B), VII, 93; compare Merchant of Venice, III, ii, 65). It is also used with "ever" for before (Psalm 90:2; Ecclesiasticus 18:19), which the American Standard Revised Version substitutes in Ecclesiastes 12:6 (compare 12:1, 2); Songs 6:12 Daniel 6:24. WATER OF SEPARATION (OR OF UNCLEANNESS) See DEFILEMENT; SEPARATION; UNCLEANNESS. SPIRIT, UNCLEAN (OR EVIL) See DEMON, DEMONIAC. WATER OF BITTERNESS (OR OF JEALOUSY) See ADULTERY, (2).

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