Himself

• POS: Pronoun
• HYPHEN: him=self

CIDE DICTIONARY

Himself, pron. 

•  An emphasized form 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.  [1913 Webster]

  " Himself was formerly used instead of itself. See Note under Him."  [1913 Webster]

  "But he himself returned from the quarries."  [1913 Webster]

  "David hid himself in the field."  [1913 Webster]

  "The Lord himself shall give you a sign."  [1913 Webster]

  "Who gave himself for us, that he might . . . purify unto himself a peculiar people."  [1913 Webster]

  "With shame remembers, while himself was one
  Of the same herd, himself the same had done."  [1913 Webster]

  "It comprehendeth in himself all good."  [1913 Webster]
•  One's true or real character; one's natural temper and disposition; the state of being in one's right or sane mind (after unconsciousness, passion, delirium, or abasement); as, the man has come to himself.  [1913 Webster]

By himself, alone; unaccompanied; apart; sequestered; as, he sits or studies by himself. -- To leave one to himself, to withdraw from him; to let him take his own course.

Himself, pron. pl. 

 Themselves. See Hemself.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Himself, pron.
1 a emphat. form of HE or HIM (he himself will do it). b refl. form of HIM (he has hurt himself).
2 in his normal state of body or mind (does not feel quite himself today).
3 esp. Ir. a third party of some importance; the master of the house.

Idiom

be himself act in his normal unconstrained manner. by himself see by oneself.

Etymology

OE (as HIM, SELF)

ROGET THESAURUS

Himself

Speciality

N speciality, specialite, individuality, individuity, particularity, peculiarity, idiocrasy, personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy, specificness, singularity, reading, version, lection, state, trait, distinctive feature, technicality, differentia, particulars, details, items, counts, minutiae, I, self, I myself, myself, himself, herself, itself, special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal, original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain, esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several, characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive, singular, idiomatic, idiotypical, typical, this, that, yon, yonder, specially, especially, particularly, in particular, in propria persona, ad hominem, for my part, each, apiece, one by one, one at a time, severally, respectively, each to each, seriatim, in detail, in great detail, in excruciating detail, in mind-numbing detail, bit by bit, pro hac vice, pro re nata, namely, that is to say, for example, id est, exemplia gratia, e, g, i, e, videlicet, viz, to wit, le style est l'homme meme.