hither : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hither	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for hither
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hither adv to this place (especially toward the speaker); "come here, please" Synonym(s): here, hither Antonym(s): there, thither
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hither \Hith"er\, adv. [OE. hider, AS. hider; akin to Icel. h[emac][edh]ra, Dan. hid, Sw. hit, Goth. hidr[emac]; 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. [bd]Victory is like a traveller, and goeth hither and thither.[b8] --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.