Crossword clues for theirs
theirs
- Belonging to others
- Nonbinary pronoun
- Belonging to those people
- They sometimes track early returns
- They handle returns
- They follow returns
- Not yours or mine
- Not belonging to us, maybe
- It's not mine
- Filter "Awake on my airplane, my skin is bare, my skin is ___"
- Claimed by that group
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- "__ not to reason why . . ."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
She \She\, pron. [sing. nom. She; poss. Her. or Hers; obj. Her; pl. nom. They; poss. Theiror Theirs; obj. Them.] [OE. she, sche, scheo, scho, AS. se['o], fem. of the definite article, originally a demonstrative pronoun; cf. OS. siu, D. zij, G. sie, OHG. siu, s[=i], si, Icel. s[=u], sj[=a], Goth. si she, s[=o], fem. article, Russ. siia, fem., this, Gr. ?, fem. article, Skr. s[=a], sy[=a]. The possessive her or hers, and the objective her, are from a different root. See Her.]
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This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.
She loved her children best in every wise.
--Chaucer.Then Sarah denied, . . . for she was afraid.
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A woman; a female; -- used substantively. [R.]
Lady, you are the cruelest she alive.
--Shak.Note: She is used in composition with nouns of common gender, for female, to denote an animal of the female sex; as, a she-bear; a she-cat.
He \He\ (h[=e]), pron. [nom. He; poss. His (h[i^]z); obj. Him (h[i^]m); pl. nom. They ([th][=a]); poss. Their or Theirs ([th][^a]rz or [th][=a]rz); obj. Them ([th][e^]m).] [AS. h[=e], masc., he['o], fem., hit, neut.; pl. h[=i], 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. [root]183. Cf. It.]
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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.
Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
--Gen. iii. 16.Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve.
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Any one; the man or person; -- used indefinitely, and usually followed by a relative pronoun.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
--Prov. xiii. 20. -
Man; a male; any male person; -- in this sense used substantively.
--Chaucer.I stand to answer thee, Or any he, the proudest of thy sort.
--Shak.Note: 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
possessive pronoun, "their own," early 14c., from their + possessive -s, on analogy of his, etc. In form, a double possessive.
Wiktionary
pron. That which belongs to them; the possessive case of ''they'', used without a following noun.
Usage examples of "theirs".
No doubt the owner of the same hand that severed our rope should have severed theirs also, but was led away from his purpose by an irresistible inclination to murder when he got the chance, which, while it cost us a man and him his hand, undoubtedly saved all the rest of us from massacre.
She smiled upon the Marches, while Miss Dryfoos watched them intensely, with her eyes first on one and then on the other, as if she did not mean to let any expression of theirs escape her.
It would not be unlike her to have seized a sword and fought at my side, for, though the women of Mars are not trained in the arts of war, the spirit is theirs, and they have been known to do that very thing upon countless occasions.
All this land was theirs once, and more and more towards our old home.
They were poor, and a splendid reward, wealth itself to them, would doubtless be theirs if they betrayed us even by a look.
There being no help for it, after seeing the others into theirs I tumbled into my own litter, and very comfortable I found it.
This habit of theirs is largely fostered by the political condition of the country.
It may be that across the immensity of space the Martians have watched the fate of these pioneers of theirs and learned their lesson, and that on the planet Venus they have found a securer settlement.
He clapped his hands, and forthwith they went off with that hopping run of theirs, fifteen or twenty of them I should think, up the beach.
In the room adjoining theirs, where the invalid actor lay, and where lately there had been minstrelsy and apparently dancing for his solace, there was now comparative silence.
He said a good many prominent citizens were going to have theirs in, and his price was a hundred and fifty dollars.
They were all spent with the fatigue that comes from heaven to such misery as theirs, and they sat in a torpor in which each waited for the other to move, to speak.
People who had brought their handbaggage with them from their rooms looked so much safer with it that people who had left theirs to their stewards had to go back and pledge them afresh not to forget it.
In what was their own explicitly, as well as what was tacitly theirs, they were not so restricted as we were at home, and especially the children seemed made fondly and lovingly free of all public things.
Jews a certain part of the forest and see to it that various animals that look damned much like Jews - the elk has a crooked nose like theirs - get there also and become acclimated.