Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Archaic Named or called.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See height.
- To command; order; bid.
- To promise; assure.
- [In this sense Chaucer has only the preterit and past participle, never the present.]
- To call; name.
- To mention.
- (orig. passive.) To be called; be named; have as a name.
Wiktionary
- v. archaic, transitive To call, name.
- v. archaic, intransitive To be called or named.
- adj. archaic Called, named.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A variant of height.
- v. Archaic & Poetic. To be called or named.
- v. obsolete To command; to direct; to impel.
- v. obsolete To commit; to intrust.
- v. obsolete To promise.
Etymologies
- From Middle English hight (alternative past participle of hoten, "to be named, be called"), from Old English hēht (preterite of hātan, "to be named, be called"), from *hehait-, reduplicate preterite base of Proto-Germanic *haitanan (“to call, command, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *key(w)-, *kyew- (“to set in motion”). Cognate with Low German heten, German heißen, Danish hedde, Dutch heten, and Swedish heta, Latin cieō ("I call, I set in motion"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, past participle of highten, hihten, to call, be called, from hehte, hight, past tense of hoten, from Old English hātan; see kei-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Gui, Add, Text, x5 y5 w200 h20, The hight is \% hight\%, \% scan_y_start\% - \% scan_y_end\%.”
“The hight is \% hight\%, \% scan_y_start\% - \% scan_y_end\%.”
“; Add Header for image file format: = "P3" comment: = "#File made in Autohotkey" hight: = scan_y_end - scan_y_start width: = scan_x_end - scan_x_start colors: = "255" file_data = % format% % comment% % width% % hight% % colors% % scan_current_line%”
“I don't think hight is as important as breaking up your silhouett.”
im a big bow hunter and i was wondering about how high do you think you should be up in a tree.
“The oil producing countries were looking for an opportunity to bleed the rest of the world to death and they got it when your president decided to raise and maintain hight tensions in middle east and use your money in fighting a war that is slowly putting your country in bigger debt.”
“Police, Husám al-Din hight, the sharp Scymitar of the Faith.”
“Then he wiped away his tears and, turning to his son, said to him, Before I proceed, O my son, to my last charges and injunctions, know that I have a brother, and thou hast an uncle, Shams al-Din hight, the”
“Ah, said the knight, that is the best knight I trow in the world, and the most man of prowess, and he hath been served so as he was even more than ten times, and his name hight Sir Pelleas, and he loveth a great lady in this country and her name is Ettard.”
“Erswi @ 14: 13 - that is EXACTLY what i said when i saw the show … ’WHAT!? where were those bitches when i was in hight school!?’”
“Hart of Highcliff wielding a good sword hight Chip-driver, wherewith he had slain and hurt a many, fighting wisely with sword and shield, and driving the point home through the joints of the armour.”
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hight’.
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phrontistery - h
from phrontistery.info
habanera, habergeon, habilable, habilatory, habile, habiliment, habilitate, habromania, hachure, hackle, hackney, hadal and 568 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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ENVI - water protection
surface system, supply, substrate, subsoil, superficial deposit, sub-basin, stream gaging sta..., spillway, stratification, surface fresh water, stop valve, sprinkler and 398 more...
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-ight
light, night, wight, hight, knight, fight, bright, right, fright, bight, eight, might and 174 more...
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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My Treasures
Well everyone's lists are favourites or pets or useful terms, no? These are mine.
mephitic, cagastric, wulm, scaevity, seplasiary, sevidical, sevous, soleated, soloecal, sputcheon, stagma, temerate and 173 more...
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jhmcmullen's list
Obsolete or archaic words, useful for fantasy writers
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noble mythical words
halcyon, yore, chevalier, geas, dour, clarion, codex, selkie, mythic, rime, hoarfrost, eldritch and 112 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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ob•so•lete
yode, yede, lered, ean, mete, hast, anon, thither, erme, hight, turnway, peinct and 8 more...
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Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Words looked up reading the above book.
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