she

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. pro. Used to refer to the woman or girl previously mentioned or implied. See Usage Note at I¹.
2. pro. Used to refer to a female animal.
3. pro. Used in place of it to refer to certain inanimate things, such as ships and nations, traditionally perceived as female: "The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female” ( Anne Sexton).
4. n. A female animal or person: Is the cat a she?

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. 3d pers. fem., possessive her or hers, objective her; nom. pl. they, possessive their or theirs, objective them. The nominative feminine of the pronoun of the third person, used as a substitute for the name of a female, or of something personified in the feminine. Compare he, especially for the forms her, hers.
2. She is often used by people of small education or of comparatively secluded lives for the female that is chief in importance to the speaker, especially a wife; in this case it has a peculiar emphasis, separating the person referred to from all other women: as, “Sit down, she 'll be here in a minute.” Compare the similar use of he.
3. She was formerly and is still dialectally sometimes used as an indeclinable form.
4. In the English of the Scotch Highlanders she is commonly used for he; so her for his.
5. n. A female person; a woman: correlative to he, a man.
6. n. A female animal; a beast, bird, or fish of the female sex: correlative to he, a male animal: hence used attributively or as an adjective prefix, signifying ‘female,’ with names of animals, or, in occasional or humorous use, of other beings: as, a she-bear, a she-cat, a she-devil, etc. See he, n., 2.

Wiktionary

1. pro. personal A female person or animal.
2. pro. personal A ship or country.
3. pro. personal, affectionate Machinery such as cars and steam engines.
4. pro. personal, nonstandard he/she. used arbitrarily with he for an indefinite person in order to be gender-neutral.
5. n. A female.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. pro. 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.
2. pro. rare A woman; a female; -- used substantively.