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.
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.
