2. Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking.

In such a world, so thorny, and where none Finds happiness unblighted,

or, if found, Without some thistly sorrow at its side.

Cowper.

Thith"er (?), adv. [OE. thider, AS. ðider; akin to E. that; cf. Icel.

þaðra there, Goth. þaþr thence. See That, and The.] 1. To that place; —

opposed to hither.

This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither.

Gen. xix. 20.

Where I am, thither ye can not come.

John vii. 34.

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