Definition of hither:
(v) :
to this place, to here
"he went hither and thither."
(adj) :
on this side; the nearer
"1954, The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil. -- Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (Chatto & Windus 1954, p. 30)"