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. hātan to call, name, be
called, to command, promise; also hātte 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.]
&fist; 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.
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. [Obs.]
But the sad steel seized not where it was
hight
Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall.
Spenser.
3. To commit; to intrust. [Obs.]
Yet charge of
them was to
a porter hight.
Spenser.
4. To promise. [Obs.]
He had hold his day, as he had hight.
Chaucer.
Hight (?), n. A variant of
Height.
Hear it pronounced