This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.

A woman; a female; -- used substantively.

or her A nautical pronoun used when referring to a boat

ships are always considered members of the female gender.

All boats are referred to as female.

She [i:, ], is a feminine pronoun of the third person, nominative case. The misuse of she for I (also for you and he) is common in literary representations of Highland English ("‘And here she comes,’ said Donald, as Captain Dalgetty entered the hall."—Walter Scott, The Legend of Montrose iv (1819)). It has also been used instead of it of things to which female sex is conventionally attributed.