Part 834

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"en*er (?), n. That which heightens.

Highth (hth or htth), n. Variant of Height. [Obs.]

High"-toned` (?), a. 1. High in tone or sound.

2. Elevated; high-principled; honorable.

In whose high-toned impartial mind Degrees of mortal rank and state Seem objects of indifferent weight.

Sir W. Scott.

High"-top` (?), n. A ship's masthead. Shak.

High"ty-tigh"ty (?), a. Hoity- toity.

High"way` (?), n. A road or way open to the use of the public; a main road or thoroughfare.

Syn. -- Way; road; path; course.

High"way`man (?), n.; pl. Highwaymen (&?;). One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.

High"-wrought` (?), a. 1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. [Obs.] Pope.

2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.

Hi"gre (?), n. See Eagre. [Obs.] Drayton.

Hig"-ta`per (?), n. [Cf. Hag- taper.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Verbascum (V. Thapsus); the common mullein. [Also high-taper and hag-taper.]

Hij"e*ra (?), Hij"ra (&?;), n. See Hegira.

Hi"lal (?), a. Of or pertaining to a hilum.