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   Hither (?), 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.]
   
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   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”.
   
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   2. To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical.
   
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   Hither we refer whatsoever belongeth unto the highest perfection of man. Hooker.
   
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   Hither and thither, to and fro; backward and forward; in various directions. “Victory is like a traveller, and goeth hither and thither.”  Knolles.
   
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   Hither, 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.
   
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   2. Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.
   
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   And on the hither side, or so she looked,
   
   Of twenty summers. Tennyson.
   
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   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.
   
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