Wiktionary
pre. (context no longer productive English) A prefix of Old English origin meaning "against", "back", "in return", "away", represented in Modern English by ''a-'', ''an-'', ''on-'', and in altered form by the reverse-action prefix (term un- English) (i.e. (term: unbuckle)). Also as the initial letter ''d'' in (term dread English) (< Old English (term ondrǣdan Old English)).
Usage examples of "and-".
Prince Vasili left the chair on which he had been leaning, and- with air which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not understand him it was so much the worse for them- did not go up to the dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its silken hangings.
Bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and- like rye shaken together in a shovel- the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms came together and crowded in the large drawing room by the door of the ballroom.
Rostov threw his cloak over his shoulders, shouted to Lavrushka to follow with the things, and- now slipping in the mud, now splashing right through it- set off with Ilyin in the lessening rain and the darkness that was occasionally rent by distant lightning.