hight

• POS: Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

hight, n. 

 A variant of Height.  [1913 Webster]

hight, v. t. & i. [OE. heiten, highten, haten, hoten; also hight, hatte, hette, is called, was called, AS. h to call, name, be called, to command, promise; also h is called, was called; akin to G. heissen to call, be called, bid, Goth. haitan to call, in the passive, to be called.].

•  To be called or named.  [1913 Webster]

  " 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."  [1913 Webster]

  "The great poet of Italy,
  That highte Dante."  [1913 Webster]

  "Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight."  [1913 Webster]

  "Entered then into the church the Reverend Teacher.
  Father he hight, and he was, in the parish."  [1913 Webster]

  "Childe Harold was he hight."  [1913 Webster]
•  To command; to direct; to impel.  [1913 Webster]

  "But the sad steel seized not where it was hight
  Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall."  [1913 Webster]
•  To commit; to intrust.  [1913 Webster]

  "Yet charge of them was to a porter hight."  [1913 Webster]
•  To promise.  [1913 Webster]

  "He had hold his day, as he had hight."  [1913 Webster]