Definition of Hithering

1. hither [v] - See also: hither

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hithering

hitchiest
hitchily
hitching
hitching-bar
hitching bar
hitching post
hitchment
hitchments
hitchrack
hitcht
hitchy
hithe
hither and thither
hithered
hithering (current term)
hithermost
hithers
hitherto
hithertofore
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
hithes
hitjob
hitjobs
hitless
hitmaker
hitmakers
hitmaking

Literary usage of Hithering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"Precise result unknown. After which, for three months more, follows waiting and hesitation and negotiation, also quite obscure. Confused hithering and ..."

2. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"Precise result unknown. After which, for three months more, follows waiting and hesitation and negotiation, also quite obscure. Confused hithering and ..."

3. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... on the scrubby moor there; and come galloping back with this interesting bit of news ! Pause hereupon ; much consulting ; in fact, endless hithering and ..."

4. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"... nor does Durch- "laucht take upon him to refuse in any point; but he is "strangely slow to sign, still hoping to mend matters. "Much hithering and ..."

5. The Old Farmer and His Almanack: Being Some Observations on Life and Manners by George Lyman Kittredge (1920)
"... J. Allen in Boston," appearing as Clough's New-England Almanack in 1703, afterwards edited by Thomas Robie, Daniel Travis, and others. The hithering and ..."

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