her (1), here (1), hir, hire, hur, hure

[A. S. hire, gen. & dat. of heb =she, -re being the usual A. S. fem. inflection in the gen. & dat. of adjectives of the strong declension.) Used as three different cases of the personal pronoun she: (1) As the po e ive case=belonging to a certain female spoken of. When thus used it is sometimes called an adjective. [HERS.] "Priscilla, aroused by his step on the threshold, Rose as he entered and gave him her hand, in signal of Long fellow: Miles Standish, iii. welcome." (2) As the dative of the pronoun=to this or that female; as, Give her the book. (3) As the objective case. "With mery note her lowd salutes the mounting larke." Spenser: F. Q. , I. xi. 51. *her (2), here (2), pron . [A. S. hira, heora .] Their, theirs. "They have received her meed."-Wycliffe: Matt. vi. 5. *her, adv. [HERE.] Hër-a, s . [Gr.] 2168 her-ald, *har-rold, v. t. [HERALD, 8.] To introduce as by a herald; to act as herald to; to proclaim; to foretell. "Sigh, nor word, nor struggling breath Heralded his way to death." Byron: Siege of Corinth , xxviii. hě-răld-Ic, a. [Eng. herald ; -ic.] Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry. narratives consisted."- Warton : Hist . Eng . Poetry , i. 336. "The pompous circumstances of which these heraldic her-ald-rỹ, *her-ald-rie, s . [Eng. herald; -ry.], 1. The art or science of a herald; the art or sci recording genealogies. ence of blazoning arms or ensigns armorial, of "What the guise of Christen do me hath been in her spiritual heraldry ." - Bp. Taylor: Episcopacy A erted , § 48. 2. Pomp, ceremony. "He, who with all heaven's heraldry whilere Entered the world, now bleeds to give us ease." Milton: The Circumcision. 3. The office of a herald, the act of performing the duties of a herald. "Various reasons would have made me wish to under IMG:content-1123.png:[blocks in formation] 2. The leaves of plants or herbs, as distinguished from the root or fruit. "God having made man, the first thing he took care of, was his life; in the appointment of his convenient food: I have given you every herb and every tree for meat (Gen. 1. 29); which comprehended, with the herbage of plants, their roots and fruits."-Grew: Cosmologia Sacra , bk. iv., ch. vi. *II. Law : The tithe and the right of pasture in the forest, or on the grounds of another.