\Hence\, adv. [OE. hennes, hens (the s is prop. a genitive
ending; cf. {-wards}), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen,
heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG.
hinn[=a]n, G. hinnen, OHG. hina, G. hin; all from the root of
E. he. See {He}.]
1. From this place; away. ``Or that we hence wend.''
   --Chaucer.
         Arise, let us go hence.               --John xiv.
                                               31.
         I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. --Acts
                                               xxii. 21.
2. From this time; in the future; as, a week hence. ``Half an
   hour hence.'' --Shak.
3. From this reason; as an inference or deduction.
         Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear
         of the Lord the beginning of wisdom.  --Tillotson.
4. From this source or origin.
         All other faces borrowed hence Their light and
         grace.                                --Suckling.
         Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they
         not hence, even of your lusts?        --James. iv.
                                               1.
Note: Hence is used, elliptically and imperatively, for go
      hence; depart hence; away; be gone. ``Hence with your
      little ones.'' --Shak. -- From hence, though a
      pleonasm, is fully authorized by the usage of good
      writers.
   An ancient author prophesied from hence.    --Dryden.
   Expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow.
                                               --Milton.

\Hence\, v. t.
To send away. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.