ˈhitherˈside, hither-side
[Properly two words, hither side: see hither a. Cf. inside, outside.]
This side; the nearer side.
| 1587 Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1967/2 Ouertaking them three miles on the hitherside of Hardilo sands. 1670 Milton Hist. Eng. iv. Wks. (1851) 147 Ail on the hitherside Humber. 1703 Moxon Mech. Exerc. 31 The Hither-side of the Anvil. 1751 Johnson Rambler No. 105 ¶8 On the hitherside of the lunar world. 1876 Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. IV. lii. 52 With a dubious wink on the hither-side of him. |