ancylus

[Gr. ἀγκύλος ( angkulos ), adj. = crooked, curved, rounded.] A genus of fluviatile shells belonging to the family Limneide. They have limpet-like shells, and are called river-limpets. In 1875 Tait estimated the recent species at forty-nine, and the fo il at eleven; the latter from the Eocene. Two, A. flu via til is and A. oblong us, occur recent in Britain. and, * ande, conj . & s. [A.S. and; Dut. en; Ger. und. The English and and an if, are e entially the same word, and were of old used almost interchangeably.] [AN.] A. As conjunction: *1. As expre ing contingency. " And thou wilt gyuen vs any good." Pierce the Plowman's Crede (1394, ed. Skeat), 393. (a) As standing for if , though , or although . "It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs."- Bacon . (b) As joined to if, and therefore redundant. "I pray thee, Launce, an ' if thou seest my boy, Bid him make haste. Shakesp. Two Gent. of Verona , ili. 1. 2. As a simple connecting particle, conjoining words with words, clauses with clauses, or sentences with sentences. This is now the normal use of the word and . "Shem, and Ham, and Japheth." Gen. vii. 13. "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the sens, and let fowl multiply in the earth."- Gen . 1. 22. " And he put them altogether into ward three days. And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live: for I fear God." Gen. xlii. 17, 18. B. As substantive: "Thou servest me, I ween, wtiffes and with andes ." -Sir T. More: Works, p. 54. In Gen. iii. 16. "Thy sorrow and thy conception" the sorrow of thy conception. In this respect the English simply copies the Hebrew. A similar idiom exists in Latin. Virgil speaks of hurling "molem et montes" (a ma and mountains) = a ma of mountains. * -and as a suffix . Old English dialects: The present participle termination in northern dialects, now superseded by the southern -ing . "His glitterand armour shinèd far away." Spenser: F. Q., L. vii. 29.