Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hither \Hith"er\, adv. [OE. hider, AS. hider; akin to Icel.
   h[=e][eth]ra, Dan. hid, Sw. hit, Goth. hidr[=e]; cf. L. citra
   on this side, or E. here, he. [root]183. Cf. {He}.]
   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.            --Hooker.

   {Hither and thither}, to and fro; backward and forward; in
      various directions. ``Victory is like a traveller, and
      goeth hither and thither.'' --Knolles.

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.

   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.                              --Tennyson.

            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.

Source : WordNet®

hither
     adv : to this place (especially toward the speaker); "come here,
           please" [syn: {here}] [ant: {there}]