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A port or small haven; -- used in composition; as, Lambhithe, now Lambeth. Pennant.

verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.

Nearest on this side. Sir M. Hale.

To this place; to a prescribed limit. Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further. Job xxxviii. 11.

Toward this place; hither. Marching hitherward in proud array. Shak.

Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.

Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater.

Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.

In the form or manner of an amphitheater.

To or towards any place. [Archaic] De Foe.

On this side of. [Obs.] Two miles behither Clifden. Evelyn.

To some, or any, other place; as, you will have to go elsewhither for it. R. of Gloucester."For elsewhither was I bound." Carlyle.

Not anywhither; in no direction; nowhere. [Archaic] "Thy servant went nowhither." 2 Kings v. 25.

some indeterminate place; to some place or other. Driven by the winds of temptation somewhither. Barrow.

To that place; -- opposed to Ant: hither. This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither. Gen. xix. 20. Where I am, thither ye can not come. John vii. 34.

To that point; so far. [Obs.]

To ward that place; in that direction. They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward. Jer. l. 5.

To what place; -- used interrogatively; as, whither goest thou "Whider may I flee" Chaucer. Sir Valentine, whither away so fast Shak.

To whatever place; to what place soever; wheresoever; as, I will go whithersoever you lead.

In what direction; toward what or which place. R. of Brunne. Whitherward to turn for a good course of life was by no means too apparent. Carlyle.