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Herd"ess (?), n. A shepherdess; a female herder. Sir P. Sidney. Chaucer.

Herd"groom` (?), n. A herdsman. [Obs.]

Her"dic (?), n. [Named from Peter Herdic, the inventor.] A kind of low-hung cab.

{ Herd"man (?), Herds"man (?), } n.; pl. -men (&?;). The owner or keeper of a herd or of herds; one employed in tending a herd of cattle.

Herds"wom`an (?), n.; pl. - women (&?;). A woman who tends a herd. Sir W. Scott.

Here (?), n. Hair. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Here (?), pron. 1. See Her, their. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

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. h‰r; 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.

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"a-bout` (?), Here"a*bouts` (?), } adv. 1. About this place; in this vicinity.

2. Concerning this. [Obs.]

Here*aft"er (?), adv. [AS. hrÊfter.] In time to come; in some future time or state.

Hereafter he from war shall come.