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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hither \Hith"er\, adverb [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hither \Hith"er\, adjective
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) 2.0 [wn]:
hither
adverb: to this place (especially toward the speaker); "come here, please" [syn: {here}] [ant: {there}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "hither": aboard, among us, here, hereabout, hereabouts, hereat, hereinto, hereto, hereunto, hitherward, hitherwards, in this place, in this vicinity, just here, on board, on the spot, somewhere about, to this place, with us
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