"hither and yon" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:",
          "text": "And I saw askant the armies, / I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags, / Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc’d with missiles I saw them, / And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody, / And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) / And the staffs all splinter’d and broken.",
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        "In, at or to various places."
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        "(literary, dated) In, at or to various places."
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        {
          "word": "here and there"
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          "word": "hither and thither"
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒn"
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  "word": "hither and yon"
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          "text": "And I saw askant the armies, / I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags, / Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc’d with missiles I saw them, / And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody, / And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) / And the staffs all splinter’d and broken.",
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        "In, at or to various places."
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        "(literary, dated) In, at or to various places."
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      "word": "hither and thither"
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