As anaph. or pers. pron.: (a) the female person referred to, she; (b) used pleonastically, or for emphasis; (c) with antecedent in apposition following: she; ~ this, usu. translating L haec or ista: she, this one [in last quot. she is prob. in an absolute constr., though it could be construed as the object of biholden v.]; (d) used determinatively: ~ (..) that, ~ the which, she who, the one who; (e) used indefinitely: ~ and ~, this one and that one; (f) referring to woman in general: womankind.

As anaph. or pers. pron.: (a) referring to an animal, a bird, an insect, etc.: she, it; -- used with both female creatures and others regarded as female; also used pleonastically; (b) referring to an inanimate object, a plant, land, town, church, sea, siege, etc.: she, it; -- generally used with nouns orig. grammatically feminine; also used pleonastically; (c) referring to a personified abstraction, a soul, Holy Church, Fortune, Venus, the earth or moon, a muse, etc.; -- also with antecedent in apposition following; also used determinatively.

As noun: (a) the female; a female human being, animal, bird, or plant; ~ and (or) he, he or ~, the) he and ~; (b) in combs.: a female; -- also used with a tree considered as female; ~ ape (got, lomb, wolf, etc.).