his

Belonging to him.

With that he put his ſpurres vnto his ſteed, With ſpeare in reſt, and toward him did fare, Like ſhaft out of a bow preuenting ſpeed.

No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.

In his first televised address since the siege in Abidjan began this week, Ouattara said he would focus on returning the country to normal to ease the plight of civilians.

datedBelonging to a person of unspecified gender.

On the contrary, those other passions, commonly denominated selfish, both produce different sentiments in each individual, according to his particular situation […]

It is our conviction that piecemeal critiques of nontheisms will not suffice. The theist must enter the arena with a positive and comprehensive case of his own.

obsoleteIts; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)

In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]

My ſtomacke could not well reach ſo farre: it is very much troubled to come to an end of that which it takes for his neede.

Yee are the ſalt of the earth: But if the ſalt haue loſt his ſauour, wherewith ſhall it bee ſalted?

archaicUsed as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case.

Ahab his mark

Sejanus his Fall

That or those belonging to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.

This pen is his. These books are also his.

The decision was his to live with.

His is bigger than mine.

That cough of his is really getting on my nerves.

informalHis house or home.

After our night out, I went back to his.

Variant of HisAlternative spelling of His.

Also a form of hiplural of hi

The Hikkams pushed a table over by the booth where the Lochwoods and Meekums were sitting, exchanged his and sat down.