Her, 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.

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Here (?), n.

Hair.

[Obs.]

Chaucer.

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Here (?), pron.

1.

See [Her], their.

[Obs.]

Chaucer.

2.

Her; hers. See [Her].

[Obs.]

Chaucer.

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Here (?), adv. [OE. her, AS. hr; akin to OS. hr, D. hier, OHG. hiar, G. hier, Icel. & Goth. hr, Dan. her, Sw. har; 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

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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.

⇒ 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. "Here's [a health] to thee, Dick."

Cowley.

[Here and there], in one place and another; in a dispersed manner; irregularly. "Footsteps here and there." 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.<-- mostly used to mean "irrelevant" --> Shak.

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