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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.

ints attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument. If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still. Shak. I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when it was tenable. Sir W. Scott.

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

Thither. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Thitherward. [Obs.]

ised, the coming evil shun. Prior. Thanks to you, That called me timelier than my purpose hither, For I have gained by it. Shak.

to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. " Art thou come hither to torment us before our time " Matt. viii. 29.

A roving hither and thither.

r; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish. The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither, for state to catch these thieves. Shak. Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world. South.

Situated beyond, or on the farther side; thither; -- correlative with hither.

Not usual; uncommon; strange; new. What unaccustomed cause procures her hither Shak.

mplete disorder; topsy-turvy. Shak. These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also. Acts xvii. 6.

Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived. [Obs.] Hitherto the English bishops have been vivacious almost to wonder. . . . But five died for the first twenty years of her [Queen Elizabeth's] reign. Fuller. The faith of Christianity is far more vivacious than any mere ravishment of the imagination ca…

y; security. I give thee warrant of thy place. Shak. His worth is warrant for his welcome hither. Shak.

To what or which place; hence, to what goal, result, or issue; whither; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, where are you going But where does this tend Goldsmith. Lodged in sunny cleft, Where the gold breezes come not. Bryant.

quence of which; after which. The townsmen mutinied and sent to Essex; whereupon he came thither. Clarendon.