here

/mhw>, pron. pl. [ OE. here, hire, AS. heora, hyra, gen. pl. of hē. See He. ] Of them; their. [ Obs. ] Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

On here bare knees adown they fall. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

pron. 1. See Her, their. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Her; hers. See Her. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is not here, for he is risen. Matt. xxviii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In the present life or state. [ 1913 Webster ]

Happy here, and more happy hereafter. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To or into this place; hither. [ Colloq. ] See Thither. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here comes Virgil. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou led'st me here. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. At this point of time, or of an argument; now. [ 1913 Webster ]

The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise. Warren. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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.

{ } adv. 1. About this place; in this vicinity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Concerning this. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A future existence or state. [ 1913 Webster ]

'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ AS. hēræfter. ] In time to come; in some future time or state. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hereafter he from war shall come. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Hereafter. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt hereafterward . . . come. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. At, or by reason of, this; as, he was offended hereat. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]