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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Her \Her\, Here \Here\, pron. pl. [OE. here, hire, AS. heora, hyra, gen. pl. of h[emac]. See {He}.] Of them; their. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. On here bare knees adown they fall. --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Here \Here\, pron. 1. See {Her}, their. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. Her; hers. See {Her}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Here \Here\, n. Hair. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Here \Here\, adv. [OE. her, AS. h[?]r; akin to OS. h[?]r, D. hier, OHG. hiar, G. hier, Icel. & Goth. h[?]r, Dan. her, Sw. h[84]r; fr. root of E. he. See {He}.] 1. In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to {there}. He is not here, for he is risen. --Matt. xxviii. 6. 2. In the present life or state. Happy here, and more happy hereafter. --Bacon. 3. To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See {Thither}. Here comes Virgil. --B. Jonson. Thou led'st me here. --Byron. 4. At this point of time, or of an argument; now. The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise. --Warren. Note: Here, in the last sense, is sometimes used before a verb without subject; as, Here goes, for Now (something or somebody) goes; -- especially occurring thus in drinking healths. [bd]Here's [a health] to thee, Dick.[b8] --Cowley. {Here and there}, in one place and another; in a dispersed manner; irregularly. [bd]Footsteps here and there.[b8] --Longfellow. {It is neither, here nor there}, it is neither in this place nor in that, neither in one place nor in another; hence, it is to no purpose, irrelevant, nonsense. |