Part 5297

<blockquote>Yet charge of them was to a porter <b>hight</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To promise.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>He had hold his day, as he had <b>hight</b>. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Hightener</h1> <Xpage=693>

<hw>Hight"en*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>That which heightens.</def>

<h1>Highth</h1> <Xpage=693>

<hw>Highth</hw> <tt>(h&imac;th or h&imac;tth)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def><it>Variant</it> of <er>Height</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>High-toned</h1> <Xpage=693>

<hw>High"-toned`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>High in tone or sound.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Elevated; high-principled; honorable.</def>

<blockquote>In whose <b>high-toned</b> impartial mind Degrees of mortal rank and state Seem objects of indifferent weight. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<-- 3. pretentious, pompous. -->

<h1>High-top</h1> <Xpage=693>

<hw>High"-top`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A ship's masthead.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Highty-tighty</h1> <Xpage=693>

<hw>High"ty-tigh"ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Hoity-toity.</def>

<h1>Highway</h1> <Xpage=693>

<hw>High"way`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A road or way open to the use of the public; a main road or thoroughfare.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Way; road; path; course.</syn>

<h1>Highwayman</h1> <Xpage=693>

<hw>High"way`man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Highwaymen</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <def>One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.</def>

<h1>High-wrought</h1> <Xpage=693>

<hw>High"-wrought`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Pope.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; <as>as, a <ex>highwrought</ex> passion</as>.</def> "A <i>high-wrought</i> flood."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Higre</h1> <Xpage=693>