Hight - Definition of Hight by Webster Dictionary

Definition of 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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