an 1 (in old edd. often “and,” of which it is only a clipped form)
1.
if
(freq.); even if, though (Mer.V. I. ii.
95); also “an if”
Tp. II. ii. 125, Mer.V. IV. i. 446;
“what an if,”
though Tit. IV. iv. 9.
2.
whether MND. V. i. 196.
3.
as if MND. I. ii. 87 (Ff, Qq
“and,” mod. edd.
“as”), H5 II. iii. 11.
