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Hidder, Hiddir, adv. and a. Also: hiddire, -yr, hydder, -ir, -yr (hedder; hither, -or). [ME. hid(d)er, hyd(d)er, OE. hider; also ME. heder, hither.]

1. adv. To or towards this place, hither; fig. to this world.(a) a1400 Leg. S. vii. 380.
Fortune has me hyddir brocht c1400 Troy-bk. i. 116.
Contrare wynd … That draf ws hydder a1500 Rauf C. 709.
Allace, that I was hidder wylit c1475 Wall. iii. 238.
Thar kyne may ban that euir we hydder socht a1500 Seven S. 158.
At the set day the child come hiddire 1511 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 106.
Gar Patrik Douglass speid him hidder 1515 Douglas Corr. 69.
I wald nocht ȝe leyt … ȝonn Duk steyll hyddyr by ȝou 1533 Bell. Livy I. 61/8.
Cum hiddir, thow burreo, and bynd this Horacianes handis 1570 Sat. P. xii. 102.
Lat vs heir quhairfoir ȝe hapnit hidder 1573 Ib. xxxix. 266.
Haif thay not … send thair forces hedder [: considdir] 1581 Breadalbane Lett. (Reg. H.) 8th Feb.
Ȝour onhabilitie to haiff trauchlit hidderfig. 1567 G. Ball. 234.
To all mankynde it is weill kend, That euer come hidder, that he mon die(b) a1500 Henr. Fab. 2472.
Ga feche him hithor [Bass. hither, Harl. hidder]

2. adj. The nearer, this (side, of a river or stream). 1470 Prestwick B. Rec. 8.
A porciunkle of land liande … on the hiddir sid of the burne 1535 Stewart 13705.
As he come ouir to the hidder syde [sc. of the Tyne]