hither

adv

1. (archaic, literary, not-comparable)To this place, to here.

   “He went hither and thither.”

   “SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently. TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.”

   “Unto her handmaid she cried, "Go fetch my gold harp hither to me, Sir Thynnè, I'll draw to my side."”

   “But the road left the river again; there were certainly twistings and turnings, as the old woman had said, for at one moment it wound hither and the next thither, and at some places it was almost imperceptible.”

   “"How now, you scullions and cullions: bring hither a pair of cow's hooves to out face this contumelious caitiff."”

2. (not-comparable)over here

adj

1. (archaic, not-comparable)On this side; the nearer.

   “The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil.”

verb

1. only used in the phrase hither and thither