and:
1.
joins two nouns
(forming the figure called hendiadys) one of which
is logically in adjectival relation to the other; or
two adjs. the first of which is adverbial to the
second: “tediousness and
process”=tedious process R2 II. iii. 12, “flint and
hardness”=flinty hardness Ant. IV. ix. 16; “slow and moving”=slowly
moving Oth. IV. ii. 54.
2.
=AN1 q.v.