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
.
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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