To: Joseph G. who wrote (10270 ) 11/4/1998 11:42:00 AM From: yard_man Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 86076
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913] Her \Her\, Here \Here\, pron. pl. [OE. here, hire, AS. heora, hyra, gen. pl. of h[=e]. See He.] Of them; their. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. On here bare knees adown they fall. --Chaucer. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913] here \Here\, n. Hair. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913] here \Here\, pron. 1. See Her, their. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. Her; hers. See Her. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Source: 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["a]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. ''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. Source: WordNet (r) 1.6 [wn] here adj : being here now; "is everyone here?"; "present company excepted" [syn: here(p)] n 1: the present location; this place; "where do we go from here?" [ant: there] 2: queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology; sister and wife of Zeus remembered for her jealously of the many mortal women Zeus fell in love with; identified with Roman Juno [syn: Hera, Here] adv 1: in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is; "I work here"; "turn here"; "radio waves received here on Earth" [ant: there] 2: in this circumstance or respect or on this point or detail; "what do we have here?"; "here I must disagree" 3: to this place (especially toward the speaker); "come here, please" [syn: hither] [ant: there] 4: at this time; now; "we'll adjourn here for lunch and discuss the remaining issues this afternoon"