withershins

adv

Etymology: Alteration of widder- in widdershins (a borrowing from Middle Low German) after the English cognate form wither- (“against, anti-”).

1. Alternative spelling of widdershins (“anticlockwise”).

   “Boils up their Livers in a Warlock's pow, Rins withershins about the Hemlock low”

   “The intellectual sweetness of those lines / That cut through time or cross it withershins.”