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   He , pron. [nom. He; poss. His ; obj. Him ; pl. nom. They ; poss. Their or Theirs ; obj. Them .] [AS. hē, masc., heó, fem., hit, neut.; pl. hī, or hie, hig; akin to OFries. hi, D. hij, OS. he, hi, G. heute to-day, Goth. himma, dat. masc., this, hina, accus. masc., and hita, accus. neut., and prob. to L. his this. √183. Cf. It.]
   The man or male being (or object personified to which the masculine gender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the masculine gender, usually referring to a specified subject already indicated.
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   Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
   Gen. iii. 16.
   
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   Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve.
   Deut. x. 20.
   
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   Any one; the man or person; -- used indefinitely, and usually followed by a relative pronoun.
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   He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
   Prov. xiii. 20.
   
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   Man; a male; any male person; -- in this sense used substantively.
   Chaucer.
   
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   I stand to answer thee,
   Or any he, the proudest of thy sort.
   Shak.
   
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   ☞ When a collective noun or a class is referred to, he is of common gender. In early English, he referred to a feminine or neuter noun, or to one in the plural, as well as to noun in the masculine singular. In composition, he denotes a male animal; as, a he-goat.
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   His , pron. [AS. his of him, his, gen. masc. & neut. of hē, neut. hit. See He.]
   Belonging or pertaining to him; -- used as a pronominal adjective or adjective pronoun; as, tell John his papers are ready; formerly used also for its, but this use is now obsolete.
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   No comfortable star did lend his light.
   Shak.
   
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   Who can impress the forest, bid the tree
   Unfix his earth-bound root?
   Shak.
   
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   ☞ Also formerly used in connection with a noun simply as a sign of the possessive. “The king his son.” Shak. “By young Telemachus his blooming years.” Pope. This his is probably a corruption of the old possessive ending -is or -es, which, being written as a separate word, was at length confounded with the pronoun his.
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   The possessive of he; as, the book is his. “The sea is his, and he made it.” 
   Ps. xcv. 5.
   
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