Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

She

She , pronoun

[Old English she, sche, scheo, scho, Anglo-Saxon seó, fem. of the definite article, originally a demonstrative pronoun; compare Old Saxon siu, Dutch zij, German sie, Old High German siu, , si, Icelandic , sjā, Gothic si she, , fem. article, Russ. siia, fem., this, Greek {not transcribed}, fem. article, Sanskrit , syā. The possessive her or hers, and the objective her, are from a different root. See Her.]

1.
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.
She loved her children best in every wise. — Chaucer
Then Sarah denied,... for she was afraid. — Gen. xviii. 15
2.
A woman; a female; -- used substantively. [Rare]
Lady, you are the cruelest she alive. — Shakespeare

She is used in composition with nouns of common gender, for female, to denote an animal of the female sex; as, a she-bear; a she-cat.