different between nighen vs nigher

English

From Middle English nei?nen, equivalent to nigh +? -en. Cognate with German nähnen.

nighen (third-person singular simple present nighens, present participle nighening, simple past and past participle nighened)

(intransitive) To come near; approach.
- 1807, George Burnett, Specimens of English prose-writers:
  [...] with so horrible countenance, that no man dare not nighen towards him.
(transitive) To bring near; appropriate.
- 1886, William Barnes, A glossary of the Dorset dialect:
  If you take an apple from the table you (1) reach forth the hand to it, (2) you close your fingers on it, (3) you nighen or bring back your hand with it.

nigher

(archaic) comparative form of nigh: more nigh
- 1847, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
  It seems to me that she might, by merely sitting quietly at his side, saying little and looking less, get nigher his heart.

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