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. 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. &fist; 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. Shak.
Here (?), pron. 1. See Her, their. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
2. Her; hers. See Her. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Here (?), n. Hair. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Hear it pronounced