Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WHITH'ER, adv. [Sax. hwyder.]

1. To what place, interrogatively. Whither goest thou? Whither away so fast? – Shak.
2. To what place, absolutely. I stray'd, I knew not whither. – Milton.
3. To which place, relatively. Whither when as they came, they fell at words. – Spenser.
4. To what point or degree.
5. Whithersoever.