(ôr, unstressed ər) conj.
1. Introducing an alternative: stop or go; red or white.
2. Offering a choice of a series: Will you take milk or coffee or chocolate?
3. Introducing an equivalent: the culinary art or art of cookery.
4. Indicating uncertainty: He lives in Chicago or thereabouts.
5. Introducing the second alternative of a choice limited to two: with either or whether. It must be either black or white; I don't care whether he goes or not.
6. Poetic Either; whether: or in the heart or in the head. [ME, contraction of other, auther either, OE āther; infl. in meaning by OE oththe or]

(ôr) adv., prep., & conj. Obs. or Scot.
Before; ere: chiefly in the phrase, or ever, before ever; ere. [OE ār, var. of ǣr earlier, before]

(ôr) noun Her.
Gold: represented in engraving by a white surface powdered with dots. [<MF <L aurum gold]