Determiner

Belonging to him.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.i:

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.

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* 2011 , Xan Rice, The Guardian , 8 Apr 2011:

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.

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

*, II.2:

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 need.

* 1611 , Matthew 5:13, King James Version:

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?

(archaic) Used 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'' for ''Ahab's mark .