adv. [ OE. her, AS. hēr; akin to OS. hēr, D. hier, OHG. hiar, G. hier, Icel. & Goth. hēr, Dan. her, Sw. här; fr. root of E. he. See He. ] 1. In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to there. [ 1913 Webster ] He is not here, for he is risen. Matt. xxviii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. In the present life or state. [ 1913 Webster ] Happy here, and more happy hereafter. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. To or into this place; hither. [ Colloq. ] See Thither. [ 1913 Webster ] Here comes Virgil. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ] Thou led'st me here. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. At this point of time, or of an argument; now. [ 1913 Webster ] The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise. Warren. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
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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