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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DE

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).

Ei"ther, conj. 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.
Few writers hesitate to use either in what is called a triple alternative; such as, We must either stay where we are, proceed, or recede.
Latham.

Either was formerly sometimes used without any correlation, and where we should now use or.

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs?
James iii. 12.

E·jac"u·late (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ejaculated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ejaculating.] [L. ejaculatus, p. p. of ejaculari to throw out; e out + ejaculari to throw, fr. jaculum javelin, dart, fr. jacere to throw. See Eject.]

1. To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject. [Archaic or Technical]

Its active rays ejaculated thence.
Blackmore.

2. To throw out, as an exclamation; to utter by a brief and sudden impulse; as, to ejaculate a prayer.


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