hith·er /ˈhɪðɚ/
 (a.)這邊的,在這邊的(ad.)向這邊,向此處


 Hith·er 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.   --Hooker.
 Hither and thither, to and fro; backward and forward; in various directions. “Victory is like a traveller, and goeth hither and thither.”


 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.
 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.

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