\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.

\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.