The, dhe (emphatic), dha (usu.), dhi, dhe (before vowels), demons. adj. called the definite article, used to denote a particular person or thing; also to denote a species ; (Scot.) used instead of the pfx. to-, this (as the day, today, the night, tonight, the morn, tomorrow, the morn's morn, tomorrow morning, the year, this year). [O.E. the (supplanting se), masc. of thaet, that.]