Hither /(?)/

Hith·er

Hither

adv.
  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.

Phrases & Compounds
Hither and thither
to and fro; backward and forward; in various directions.

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.
  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.
    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.