1. Adverb
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. Adverb
To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical.
3. Adjective
Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill.
4. Adjective
Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.
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