Her pronoun or adjective [OE. hire, here, hir, hure, gen. and dat. sing., AS. hire, gen. and dat. sing. of héo she. from the same root as E. he. See He.] The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she;

as, I saw her with her purse out.

☞ 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.

-- Webster's unabridged 1913