Belonging or pertaining to him; used as a pronominal adjective or adjective pronoun; as, tell John his papers are ready; formerly used also for its, but this use is now obsolete. "No comfortable star did lend his light." "Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?" Note: Also formerly used in connection with a noun simply as a sign of the possessive. "The king his son." "By young Telemachus his blooming years." This his is probably a corruption of the old possessive ending -is or -es, which, being written as a separate word, was at length confounded with the pronoun his.
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