-or

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Or \Or\ ([^o]r), conj. [OE. or, outher, other, auther, either,
     or, AS. [=a]w[eth]er, contr. from [=a]hwae[eth]er; [=a] aye +
     hwae[eth]er 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}. You may
     ride 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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     Note: 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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     Note: 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.).
           [1913 Webster] 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  -or \-or\ suff. [L. -or: cf. OF. -or, -ur, -our, F. -eur.]
     1. A noun suffix denoting an act; a state or quality; as in
        error, fervor, pallor, candor, etc.
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     2. A noun suffix denoting an agent or doer; as in auditor,
        one who hears; donor, one who gives; obligor, elevator. It
        is correlative to -ee. In general -or is appended to words
        of Latin, and -er to those of English, origin. See {-er}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Or \Or\, prep. & adv. [AS. ?r ere, before. [root]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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Or \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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  OR
       n 1: a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific [syn: {Oregon},
             {Beaver State}]
       2: a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of
          surgical operations; "great care is taken to keep the
          operating rooms aseptic" [syn: {operating room}, {operating
          theater}, {operating theatre}, {surgery}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  152 Moby Thesaurus words for "or":
     achievement, alerion, and/or, animal charge, annulet, argent,
     armorial bearings, armory, arms, aureate, aureateness, auric,
     azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, beige, bend,
     bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, broad arrow,
     buff, buff-yellow, cadency mark, canary, canary-yellow, canton,
     chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, citron, citron-yellow,
     coat of arms, cockatrice, coronet, cream, creamy, crescent, crest,
     cross, cross moline, crown, device, difference, differencing,
     eagle, ecru, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon,
     falcon, fallow, fallowness, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch,
     flaxen, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, gilded, gilt,
     gold, gold-colored, golden, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment,
     helmet, heraldic device, honor point, impalement, impaling,
     inescutcheon, label, lemon, lemon-yellow, lion, lozenge, luteolous,
     lutescent, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto,
     mullet, nombril point, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous,
     ochroid, ochrous, ochry, octofoil, ordinary, orle, pale, paly,
     pean, pheon, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, purpure,
     quarter, quartering, rose, sable, saffron, saffron-colored,
     saffron-yellow, sallow, saltire, sand-colored, sandy, scutcheon,
     shield, spread eagle, straw, straw-colored, subordinary, tenne,
     tincture, torse, tressure, unicorn, vair, vert, wreath, xanthic,
     xanthous, yale, yellow, yellowish, yellowishness, yellowness
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  OR
       Originator / Recipient (X.400, MOTIS), "O/R"
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  OR
       
           The {Boolean} function which is true if any of its
          arguments are true.  Its {truth table} is:
       
           A | B | A OR B
           --+---+---------
           F | F |    F
           F | T |    T
           T | F |    T
           T | T |    T
       
          (1996-11-04)
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  OR. This syllable in the termination of words has an active signification, 
  and usually denotes the doer of an act; as, the grantor, he who makes a 
  grant; the vendor, he who makes a sale; the feoffor, he who makes a 
  feoffment. Litt. s. 57; 1 Bl. Com. 140, n.