HIGHT

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A variant of Height.

2.
v.

To be called or named. [Archaic & Poetic.]

3.
v.

To command; to direct; to impel. [Obs.] But the sad steel seized not where it was hight Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall. Spenser.

4.
v.

To commit; to intrust. [Obs.] Yet charge of them was to a porter hight. Spenser.

5.
v.

To promise. [Obs.] He had hold his day, as he had hight. Chaucer.

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