Hight

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A variant of Height.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To be called or named. [Archaic & Poetic.]

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.