hight

Height \Height\ (h[imac]t), n. [Written also {hight}.] [OE.
   heighte, heght, heighthe, AS. he['a]h[eth]u, h[=e]h[eth]u fr.
   heah high; akin to D. hoogte, Sw. h["o]jd, Dan. h["o]ide,
   Icel. h[ae][eth], Goth. hauhi[thorn]a. See {High}.]
   1. The condition of being high; elevated position.
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            Behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
                                                  --Job xxii.
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   2. The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above
      that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the
      level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a
      surface, as the floor or the ground, of an animal,
      especially of a man; stature. --Bacon.
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            [Goliath's] height was six cubits and a span. --1
                                                  Sam. xvii. 4.
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   3. Degree of latitude either north or south. [Obs.]
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            Guinea lieth to the north sea, in the same height as
            Peru to the south.                    --Abp. Abbot.
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   4. That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain;
      as, Alpine heights. --Dryden.
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   5. Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power,
      learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank;
      pre["e]minence or distinction in society; prominence.
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            Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
                                                  --R. Browning.
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            All would in his power hold, all make his subjects.
                                                  --Chapman.
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   6. Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.
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            Social duties are carried to greater heights, and
            enforced with stronger motives by the principles of
            our religion.                         --Addison.
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   7. Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or
      condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of
      madness, of folly; the height of a tempest.
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            My grief was at the height before thou camest.
                                                  --Shak.
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   {On height}, aloud. [Obs.]
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            [He] spake these same words, all on hight.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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Hight \Hight\, n.
   A variant of {Height}.
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Hight \Hight\, v. t. & i. [imp. {Hight}, {Hot}, p. p. {Hight},
   {Hote} (?), {Hoten} (?). See {Hote}.] [OE. heiten, highten,
   haten, hoten; also hight, hatte, hette, is called, was
   called, AS. h[=a]tan to call, name, be called, to command,
   promise; also h[=a]tte is called, was called; akin to G.
   heissen to call, be called, bid, Goth. haitan to call, in the
   passive, to be called.]
   1. To be called or named. [Archaic & Poetic.]
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   Note: In the form hight, it is used in a passive sense as a
         present, meaning is called or named, also as a
         preterite, was called or named. This form has also been
         used as a past participle. See {Hote}.
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               The great poet of Italy,
               That highte Dante.                 --Chaucer.
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               Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight.
                                                  --Surrey.
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               Entered then into the church the Reverend
               Teacher.
               Father he hight, and he was, in the parish.
                                                  --Longfellow.
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               Childe Harold was he hight.        --Byron.
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   2. To command; to direct; to impel. [Obs.]
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            But the sad steel seized not where it was hight
            Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   3. To commit; to intrust. [Obs.]
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            Yet charge of them was to a porter hight. --Spenser.
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   4. To promise. [Obs.]
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            He had hold his day, as he had hight. --Chaucer.
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