3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
hither
adv : to this place (especially toward the speaker); "come here
please" [syn: {here}] [ant: {there}]
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