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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)