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Not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable.

ires of another; devoted. [Obs.] His servants weeping, Obsequious to his orders, bear him hither. Addison.

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.

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

er of the volta, 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.

The dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheater, from the top of which the seats began.

To cause to come; to bring; to attract. [Obs.] What unaccustomed cause procures her hither Shak.

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

n., 8. Never 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 mechanic…

tresses yellow, and long straughten, Unto her heeles down they raughten. Rom. of R. Reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side. John xx. 27. Fruit trees, over woody, reached too far Their pampered boughs. Milton.

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

d bright. Chaucer. 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]

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

To make haste; to move with celerity. I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility. Shak.

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

at 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.