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AYTHER, pron. and conj. Either.
1. pron.Sc. a.1894 R. L. Stevenson Weir of Hermiston vii.:
There's no a hair on ayther o' the Weirs.Ags.
1676 Private Document (per Fif.1):
We or ayther of us.
2. conj.Abd. 1909 J.T. Jeannie Jaffray vii.:
It's ayther dee as we're bidden, or lose our life.Kcb. 1894 S. R. Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet iv.:
It wasna sodger or minister ayther that wad hae run frae the sicht o' me.
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