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.
Hith"er (?), adv. [OE. hider, AS. hider; akin to Icel. hēðra, Dan. hid, Sw. hit, Goth. hidrē; cf. L.
citra on this side, or E. here, he. √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.
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