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Here
n.

Hair. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Here
pron. (hr)

1. See Her, their. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. Her; hers. See Her. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Here
adv. (hēr)

[OE. her, AS. hēr; akin to OS. hēr, D. hier, OHG. hiar, G. hier, Icel. & Goth. hēr, Dan. her, Sw. här; 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. «Here's [a health] to thee, Dick.» Cowley.

Here and there, in one place and another; in a dispersed manner; irregularly. «Footsteps here and thereLongfellow. -- 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. Shak.




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