Hitch"el (?), n. & v. t. See Hatchel.
Hithe (h), n. [AS. h. Cf. Hide to conceal.] A port or small haven; --
used in composition; as, Lambhithe, now Lambeth. Pennant.
Hith"er (?), adv. [OE. hider, AS. hider; akin to Icel. hra, Dan. hid,
Sw. hit, Goth. hidr; cf. L. citra on this side, or E. here, he.
√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.
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.
Hith"er*most` (?), a. Nearest on this side. Sir M. Hale.
Hith"er*to` (?), adv. 1. To this place; to a prescribed limit.
Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further.
Job xxxviii. 11.