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To conduct; to lead; to guide. [Obs.] He was sent to conduce hither the princess. Sir H. Wotton.

dge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment. I never gave it him. Send for him hither, And let him confess a truth. Shak. As I confess it needs must be. Tennyson. As an actor confessed without rival to shine. Goldsmith.

Near at hand; easy of access. [Colloq.] Hereties used to be brought thither, convenient for burning. Thackeray.

run and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare. [Obs.] Drayton. We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming. Shak.

To wander hither and thither on land. [Colloq.]

To lead forth. [A Latinism] He should hither deduce a colony. Selden.

t the first difficulty. Locke. We wish that . . . desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power still stand strong. D. Webster.

etermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. Bryant.

determination of; to limit; to bound; to bring to an end; to finish. The knowledge of men hitherto hath been determined by the view or sight. Bacon. Now, where is he that will not stay so long Till his friend sickness hath determined me Shak.

Without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms. No man hath hitherto been so impious as plainly and directly to condemn prayer. Hooker.

A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.

To whirl hither and thither. [Obs.]

Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.] Making hither with all due expedience. Shak.

substance. All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . . Dissolved on earth, fleet hither. Milton.

To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air. Blackmore.

nemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee. Fly, ere evil intercept thy flight. Milton. Whither shall I fly to escape their hands Shak.

a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even Jesus. Heb. vi. 20. My elder brothers, my forerunners, came. Dryden.

To proceed; to go. [Obs.] The bauty of this sinful dame Made many princes thither frame. Shak.

ed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address. Friend, how camest thou in hither Matt. xxii. 12.

ks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport. Hither, come hither, and frolic and play. Tennyson.