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m of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself. But he himself returned from the quarries. Judges iii. 19. David hid himself in the field. 1 Sa…

Themselves. See Hemself. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself. Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or poor. Locke.

A cooler; a vat for cooling wort, etc. [Written also keelvat.] Johnson.

The shelf of a mantel.

I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or person; as I myself will do it; I have done it myself; -- used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb, without emphasis; as, I will defend myself.

The negative of self. "A cognizance of notself." Sir. W. Hamilton.

A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one. Commonly writen as two words, one's self. One's self (or more properly oneself), is quite a modern form. In Elizabethan English we find a man's self=one's self. Morris.

erally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural. "Mucky pelf." Spenser. "Paltry pelf." Burke. Can their pelf prosper, not got by valor or industry Fuller.

Of or pertaining to pelf. Stanyhurst.

Pelf; also, figuratively, rubbish; trash. [Obs.] Cranmer.

Same; particular; very; identical. [Obs., except in the compound selfsame.] "On these self hills." Sir. W. Raleigh. To shoot another arrow that self way Which you did shoot the first. Shak. At that self moment enters Palamon. Dryden.

Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame.

Degradation of one's self by one's own act.

Lowering or humbling one's self.

Abhorrence of one's self.

Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.

The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties.

Accused by one's self or by one's conscience. "Die self- accused." Cowper.

Acting of or by one's self or by itself; -- said especially of a machine or mechanism which is made to perform of or for itself what is usually done by human agency; automatic; as, a self-acting feed apparatus; a self-acting mule; a self-acting press.