Usually means: Everywhere, in various different directions.
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  1. hither and yon: Merriam-Webster
  2. hither and yon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hither and yon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. hither and yon: Wiktionary
  5. hither and yon: Dictionary.com
  6. HITHER AND YON: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  7. hither and yon: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hither and yon: Idioms

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▸ adverb:  (literary, dated) In, at or to various places.

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