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   Height , n. [Written also hight.] [OE. heighte, heght, heighthe, AS. heáhðu, hēhðu fr. heah high; akin to D. hoogte, Sw. höjd, Dan. höide, Icel. hæð, Goth. hauhiþa. See High.]
   The condition of being high; elevated position.
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   Behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
   Job xxii. 12.
   
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   The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of an animal, especially of a man; stature.
   Bacon.
   
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   [Goliath's] height was six cubits and a span.
   1 Sam. xvii. 4.
   
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   Degree of latitude either north or south. [Obs.]
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   Guinea lieth to the north sea, in the same height as Peru to the south.
   Abp. Abbot.
   
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   That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights.
   Dryden.
   
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   Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preëminence or distinction in society; prominence.
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   Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
   R. Browning.
   
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   All would in his power hold, all make his subjects.
   Chapman.
   
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   Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.
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   Social duties are carried to greater heights, and enforced with stronger motives by the principles of our religion.
   Addison.
   
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   Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest.
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   My grief was at the height before thou camest.
   Shak.
   
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   On height, aloud. [Obs.]
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   [He] spake these same words, all on hight.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Hight , n. A variant of Height.
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   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.]
   To be called or named. [Archaic & Poetic.]
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   ☞ 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.
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   The great poet of Italy,
   That highte Dante.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight.
   Surrey.
   
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   Entered then into the church the Reverend Teacher.
   Father he hight, and he was, in the parish.
   Longfellow.
   
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   Childe Harold was he hight.
   Byron.
   
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   To command; to direct; to impel. [Obs.]
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   But the sad steel seized not where it was hight
   Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall.
   Spenser.
   
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   To commit; to intrust. [Obs.]
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   Yet charge of them was to a porter hight.
   Spenser.
   
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   To promise. [Obs.]
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   He had hold his day, as he had hight.
   Chaucer.
   
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