EIGHT, adjective [Latin octo.] Twice four; expressing the number twice four. Four and four make eight

EIGHTEEN, a 'ateen. Eight and ten united.

EIGHTEENTH, adjective 'ateenth. The next in order after the seventeenth.

EIGHTFOLD, adjective 'atefold. Eight times the number or quantity.

EIGHTH, adjective aitth. Noting the number eight; the number next after seven; the ordinal of eight.

EIGHTH, noun In music, an interval composed of five tones and two semitones.

EIGHTHLY, adverb aithly. In the eighth place.

EIGHTIETH, adjective 'atieth. [from eighty.] The next in order to the seventy ninth; the eighth tenth.

EIGHTY, adjective 'aty. Eight times ten; four score.

EIGNE, adjective Eldest; an epithet, used in law to denote the eldest son; as bastard eigne

1. Unalienable; entailed; belonging to the eldest son. [Not used.]

E'ISEL, noun Vinegar. [Not in use.]

EI'SENRAHM, noun The red and brown eisenrahm the scaly red and brown hematite.

E'ITHER, adjective or pronoun

1. One or another of any number. Here are ten oranges; take either orange of the whole number, or take either of them. In the last phrase, either stands as a pronoun or substitute.

2. One of two. This sense is included in the foregoing.

Lepidus flatters both,

Of both is flattered; but he neither loves,

Nor either cares for him.

3. Each; every one separately considered.

On either side of the river. Revelation 22:2.

4. This word, when applied to sentences or propositions, is called a distributive or a conjunction. It precedes the first of two or more alternatives, and is answered by or before the second, or succeeding alternatives.

Either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleepeth. l Kings 18.

In this sentence, either refers to each of the succeeding clauses of the sentence.