[her-self] 
| 1. | an emphatic appositive of her or she: She herself wrote the letter. |
| 2. | a reflexive form of her: She supports herself. |
| 3. | (used in absolute constructions): Herself still only a child, she had to take care of her four younger brothers and sisters. |
| 4. | (used as the object of a preposition or as the direct or indirect object of a verb): She gave herself a facial massage. He asked her for a picture of herself. |
| 5. | (used in comparisons after as or than): She found out that the others were even more nervous than herself. |
| 6. | her normal or customary self: After a few weeks of rest, she will be herself again. |
| her·self (hûr-sělf') pron.
[Middle English hire self, from Old English hire selfre, dative of hēo self : hēo, she; see she + self, self; see self.] |
