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Hither | 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. [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] |
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