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-- Hight --
hightail
hightail it
Hightener
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Highwayman
Higi
Higler
Higre
HIGZ
Hight
n.
1.
A
variant
of
Height
.
v. t. & i.
1.
To
be
called
or
named
.
[
imp
.
Hight
,
Hot
( )
,
p
.
p
.
Hight
,
Hote
( ),
Hoten
( ).
See
Hote
.]
The
great
poet
of
Italy
,
That
highte
Dante
.
- Chaucer.
Bright
was
her
hue
,
and
Geraldine
she
hight
.
- Surrey.
Entered
then
into
the
church
the
Reverend
Teacher
.
Father
he
hight
,
and
he
was
,
in
the
parish
.
- Longfellow.
Childe
Harold
was
he
hight
.
- Byron.
2.
To
command
;
to
direct
;
to
impel
.
But
the
sad
steel
seized
not
where
it
was
hight
Upon
the
child
,
but
somewhat
short
did
fall
.
- Spenser.
3.
To
commit
;
to
intrust
.
Yet
charge
of
them
was
to
a
porter
hight
.
- Spenser.
4.
To
promise
.
He
had
hold
his
day
,
as
he
had
hight
.
- Chaucer.
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