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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hither we refer whatsoever belongeth unto the highest perfection of man. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hither and thither, to and fro; backward and forward; in various directions. “Victory is like a traveller, and goeth hither and thither.” Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than. [ 1913 Webster ]

And on the hither side, or so she looked,
Of twenty summers. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Nearest on this side. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. To this place; to a prescribed limit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further. Job xxxviii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Up to this time; as yet; until now. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord hath blessed me hitherto. Josh. xvii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ AS. hiderweard. ] Toward this place; hither. [ 1913 Webster ]

Marching hitherward in proud array. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]