Used in ‘to hither and thither’: see HITHER v.
1837. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett. to Carlyle, 29 Aug., in Lett. & Mem. (1903), I. 61. Waiting for certainties; hithering and thithering being a condition under which I find it almost impossible to write.
1856, 1864. [see HITHER v.].
