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Characterized by, or suitable for, knocking about, or traveling or wandering hither and thither.

A bearer of news; a courier; a newspaper. [Obs.] There cometh a news thither with his horse. Pepys.

small orb of one particular tear. Shak. Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled. Milton.

Upon the surface of, or the whole surface of; hither and thither upon; throughout the whole extent of; as, to wander over the earth; to walk over a field, or over a city.

ve; conclusive; final. Think of heaven with hearty purposes and peremptory designs to get thither. Jer. Taylor.

olta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns. From pillar to post, hither and thither; to and fro; from one place or predicament to another; backward and forward. [Colloq.] -- Pillar saint. See Stylite. -- Pillars of the fauces. See Fauces, 1.

Headlong; running downward or headlong. "Down thither prone in flight." Milton.

r pull a straight fast ball to leg. R. H. Lyttelton. To pull and haul, to draw hither and thither. " Both are equally pulled and hauled to do that which they are unable to do. " South. -- To pull down, to demolish; to destroy; to degrade; as, to pull down a house. " In political affairs, as well as mechanical, it is e…

Looking behind; looking backward watchfully. [He] turns thither his regardant eye. Southey.

haucer. To roll one's self, to wallow. -- To roll the eye, to direct its axis hither and thither in quick succession. -- To roll one's r's, to utter the letter r with a trill. [Colloq.]

Shady characters, disreputable, criminal. London Spectator. On the shady side of, on the thither side of; as, on the shady side of fifty; that is, more than fifty. [Colloq.] -- To keep shady, to stay in concealment; also, to be reticent. [Slang]

turn; as, to shift the helm or sails. Carrying the oar loose, [they] shift it hither and thither at pleasure. Sir W. Raleigh.

was a rumor that any thing important had happened or was about to happen, people hastened thither to obtain intelligence from the fountain head. Macaulay.

hat extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.

A beam or ray of the sun. "Evening sunbeams." Keble. Thither came Uriel, gliding through the even On a sunbeam. Milton.

To stray; to wander; to rope. [Obs.] A maid thitherward did run, To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve. Sir P. Sidney.

To or into that place; thither. The rarest that e'er came there. Shak.

Thither. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Thitherward. [Obs.]

A roving hither and thither.