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prep. On this side of. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Two miles behither Clifden. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. To some, or any, other place; as, you will have to go elsewhither for it. R. of Gloucester. “For elsewhither was I bound.” Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hither we refer whatsoever belongeth unto the highest perfection of man. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hither and thither, to and fro; backward and forward; in various directions. “Victory is like a traveller, and goeth hither and thither.” Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

a. Nearest on this side. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. To this place; to a prescribed limit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further. Job xxxviii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Up to this time; as yet; until now. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord hath blessed me hitherto. Josh. xvii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ AS. hiderweard. ] Toward this place; hither. [ 1913 Webster ]

Marching hitherward in proud array. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ No + whither. ] Not anywhither; in no direction; nowhere. [ Archaic ] “Thy servant went nowhither.” 2 Kings v. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. To some indeterminate place; to some place or other. [ 1913 Webster ]

Driven by the winds of temptation somewhither. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. thider, AS. ðider; akin to E. that; cf. Icel. þaðra there, Goth. þaþrō thence. See That, and The. ] 1. To that place; -- opposed to hither. [ 1913 Webster ]

This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither. Gen. xix. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where I am, thither ye can not come. John vii. 34. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- There. Thither, There. Thither properly denotes motion toward a place; there denotes rest in a place; as, I am going thither, and shall meet you there. But thither has now become obsolete, except in poetry, or a style purposely conformed to the past, and there is now used in both senses; as, I shall go there to-morrow; we shall go there together. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water. W. D. Howells. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. To that point; so far. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. To ward that place; in that direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward. Jer. l. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. whider. AS. hwider; akin to E. where, who; cf. Goth. hvadrē whither. See Who, and cf. Hither, Thither. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To what place; -- used interrogatively; as, whither goest thou? “Whider may I flee?” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sir Valentine, whither away so fast? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To what or which place; -- used relatively. [ 1913 Webster ]

That no man should know . . . whither that he went. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

We came unto the land whither thou sentest us. Num. xiii. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To what point, degree, end, conclusion, or design; whereunto; whereto; -- used in a sense not physical. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor have I . . . whither to appeal. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Any whither, to any place; anywhere. [ Obs. ] “Any whither, in hope of life eternal.” Jer. Taylor. --
No whither, to no place; nowhere. [ Obs. ] 2 Kings v. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Where. -- Whither, Where. Whither properly implies motion to place, and where rest in a place. Whither is now, however, to a great extent, obsolete, except in poetry, or in compositions of a grave and serious character and in language where precision is required. Where has taken its place, as in the question, “Where are you going?” [ 1913 Webster ]

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adv. [ Whither + soever. ] To whatever place; to what place soever; wheresoever; as, I will go whithersoever you lead. [ 1913 Webster ]