Here

(hr), adv. [OE. her, AS. hr; akin to OS. hr, D. hier, OHG. hiar, G. hier, Icel. & Goth. hr, Dan. her, Sw. hr; fr. root of E. he. See He.] 1. In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to there.
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He is not here, for he is risen.

Matt. xxviii. 6.
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2. In the present life or state.
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Happy here, and more happy hereafter.

Bacon.
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3. To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See Thither.
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Here comes Virgil.

B. Jonson.
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Thou led'st me here.

Byron.
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4. At this point of time, or of an argument; now.
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The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise.

Warren.
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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.
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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.

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Here"a-bout`

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Here"a*bouts`

(?), } adv. 1. About this place; in this vicinity.
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2. Concerning this. [Obs.]
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