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Or (ôr), conj. [OE. or, outher, other, auther, either, or, AS. āwðer, contr. from āhwaeðer; ā aye + hwaeðer whether. See Aye, and Whether, and cf. Either.] 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.  “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”.

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    If man's convenience, health,

    Or safety interfere, his rights and claims

    Are paramount. Cowper.

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    ☞ Or may be used to join as alternatives terms expressing unlike things or ideas (as, is the orange sour or sweet?), or different terms expressing the same thing or idea; as, this is a sphere, or globe.

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    ☞ Or sometimes begins a sentence.  In this case it expresses an alternative or subjoins a clause differing from the foregoing.  “Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone?”  Matt. vii. 9 (Rev. Ver.).

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       Or for either is archaic or poetic.

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    Maugre thine heed, thou must for indigence

    Or steal, or beg, or borrow thy dispence. Chaucer.

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Or, prep. & adv. [AS. r ere, before. √204. See Ere, prep. & adv.] Ere; before; sooner than. [Obs.]

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    But natheless, while I have time and space,

    Or that I forther in this tale pace. Chaucer.

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    Or ever, Or ere. See under Ever, and Ere.

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Or, n. [F., fr. L. aurum gold.  Cf. Aureate.] (Her.) Yellow or gold color, -- represented in drawing or engraving by small dots.

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