Hēr, pron. & a.
pron. & a. [O. Eng. hire, here, hēr, hure, A-S. hire, heore, gen., acc., and dat. sing. of héo, she; O. Eng. her also equivalent to their, A-S. gen. pl. hira, heora.]
Sense 1. The objective case of the personal pronoun she. See SHE.
The sea That buried her I loved, should bury me. Dryden.
Sense 2. Belonging to a female, or a noun in the feminine gender; — being the possessive case of the personal pronoun she; as, her face; her head.
She ... gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. Gen. iii. 6.
Her [Wisdom's] ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Prov. iii. 17.
☞ Some grammarians call her, when thus used, an adjective pronoun agreeing with the following noun. It is written hers when the noun which governs it, or with which it agrees, is not given, but implied. “And what his fortune wanted, hers could mend.” Dryden. Said by some to be thus used absolutely, or as a substantive.