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Definition of Hither
Hither Hither Hith"er, adv. [OE. hider, AS. hider; akin to Icel.
h[=e][eth]ra, Dan. hid, Sw. hit, Goth. hidr[=e]; cf. L. citra
on this side, or E. here, he. [root]183. Cf. He.]
1. To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and
implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and
thither; as, to come or bring hither.
2. To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a
sense not physical.
Hither we refer whatsoever belongeth unto the
highest perfection of man. --Hooker.
Hither and thither, to and fro; backward and forward; in
various directions. ``Victory is like a traveller, and
goeth hither and thither.' --Knolles.
Hither Hither Hith"er, a.
1. Being on the side next or toward the person speaking;
nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the
hither side of a hill. --Milton.
2. Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of
fewer years than.
And on the hither side, or so she looked, Of twenty
summers. --Tennyson.
To the present generation, that is to say, the
people a few years on the hither and thither side of
thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside
of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday.
--Huxley.