The possessive her takes the form hers when the noun with which in agrees is not given, but implied.
"And what his fortune wanted, hers could mend." Dryden.
Her
(Her, Here) pron. pl. [OE. here, hire, AS. heora, hyra, gen. pl. of he. See He.] Of them; their.
[Obs.] Piers Plowman.
On here bare knees adown they fall.
Chaucer. Heracleonite
(He*rac"le*on*ite) n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Heracleon of Alexandria, a Judaizing
Gnostic, in the early history of the Christian church.
Herakline
(He*rak"line) n. A picrate compound, used as an explosive in blasting.
Herald
(Her"ald) n. [OE. herald, heraud, OF. heralt, heraut, herault, F. héraut, LL. heraldus, haraldus,
fr. (assumed) OHG. heriwalto, hariwaldo, a (civil) officer who serves the army; hari, heri, army + waltan
to manage, govern, G. walten; akin to E. wield. See Harry, Wield.]
1. (Antiq.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim
peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and
inviolable character.
2. In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies,
of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some
vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College and King-at-Arms.
3. A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame. Shak.
4. A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger.
It was the lark, the herald of the morn.
Shak. 5. Any messenger. "My herald is returned." Shak.
Heralds' College, in England, an ancient corporation, dependent upon the crown, instituted or perhaps
recognized by Richard III. in 1483, consisting of the three Kings-at- Arms and the Chester, Lancaster,
Richmond, Somerset, Windsor, and York Heralds, together with the Earl Marshal. This retains from
the Middle Ages the charge of the armorial bearings of persons privileged to bear them, as well as of
genealogies and kindred subjects; — called also College of Arms.
Herald
(Her"ald) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heralded; p. pr. & vb. n. Heralding.] [Cf. OF. herauder, heraulder.]
To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in. Shak.
Heraldic
(He*ral"dic) a. [Cf. F. héraldique.] Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning;
heraldic language. T. Warton.
Heraldically
(He*ral"dic*al*ly) adv. In an heraldic manner; according to the rules of heraldry.
Heraldry
(Her"ald*ry) n. The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies,
and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.
Heraldship
(Her"ald*ship), n. The office of a herald. Selden.
Herapathite
(Her"a*path*ite) n. [Named after Dr. Herapath, the discoverer.] (Chem.) The sulphate of
iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light.
Heraud
(Her"aud) n. A herald. [Obs.] Chaucer.
