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Webster 1913 Edition
She
She
,p
ron.
[
s
ing.
nom.
She
; p
oss.
Her
. or Hers
; obj.
Her
; pl.
nom.
They
; p
oss.
Their
or Theirs
; obj.
Them
.] [OE.
she
, sche
, scheo
, scho
, AS. seó
, fem. of the definite article, originally a demonstrative pronoun; cf. OS. siu
, D. zij
, G. sie
, OHG. siu
, sī
, si
, Icel. sū
, sjā
, Goth. si
she, sō
, fem. article, Russ. siia
, fem., this, Gr. [GREEK], fem. article, Skr. sā
, syā
. The possessive her
or hers
, and the objective her
, are from a different root. See Her
.] 1.
This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.
She
loved her children best in every wise. Chaucer.
Then Sarah denied, . . . for
she
was afraid. Gen. xviii. 15.
2.
A woman; a female; – used substantively.
[R.]
Lady, you are the cruelest
she
alive. Shakespeare
☞ She is used in composition with nouns of common gender, for female, to denote an animal of the female sex; as, a she-bear; a she-cat.
Webster 1828 Edition
She
SHE
, pronoun personal of the feminine gender. [She is perhaps the Heb. a woman or wife. L. quoe.] 1. A pronoun which is a substitute for the name of a female, and of the feminine gender; the word which refers to a female mentioned in the preceding or following part of a sentence or discourse.
Then denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. Gen. 18.
2. She is sometimes used as a noun for waman or female, and in the plural; but in contempt or in ludicrous language.
Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive. Shak.
The shes of Italy shall not betray
My interest. Shak.
3. She is also used in composition for female, representing sex; as a she-bear; a she-cat.