Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HIGHGATE-RESIN, n. [Highgate Resin; See Fossil Copal.]

HIGH-GAZ-ING, a.

Looking upward. More.

HIGH'-GO-ING, a.

Moving rapidly. Messenger.

HIGH-GROWN, a.

Having the crop considerably grown.

HIGH-HEAP-ED, a.

1. Covered with high piles; as, a high-heaped table. Pope.
2. Raised in high piles. Pope.

HIGH-HEART'ED, a.

Full of courage. Beaum.

HIGH'-HEEL-ED, a.

Having high heels. Swift.

HIGH-HUNG, a.

Hung aloft; elevated. Dryden.

HIGH'LAND, n.

Elevated land; a mountainous region. Highlands of Scotland, mountainous regions inhabited by the descendants of the ancient Celts, who retain their primitive language. Highlands on the Hudson, sixty miles from New York. These afford most sublime and romantic scenery, and here is West Point, a fortified post during the Revolution, and now the seat of one of the best military schools of the age.

HIGH'LAND-ER, n.

An inhabitant of the mountains; as, the Highlanders of Scotland.

HIGH'LAND-ISH, a.

Denoting high or mountainous land. Drummond.

HIGH-LIV-ED, a.

Pertaining to high life. Goldsmith.

HIGH'LY, adv. [hi'ly.]

1. With elevation in place.
2. In a great degree. We are highly favored. Exercise is highly requisite to health.
3. Proudly; arrogantly; ambitiously. Shak.
4. With elevation of mind or opinion; with great estimation; as, to think highly of one's performances.

HIGH-MET-TLED, a.

Having high spirit; ardent; full of fire; as, a high-mettled steed.

HIGH-MIND-ED, a.

1. Proud; arrogant. Be not high-minded, but fear. Rom. xi.
2. Having honorable pride; magnanimous; opposed to mean.

HIGH'-MIND-ED-NESS, n.

State of being high-minded.

HIGH'MOST, a.

Highest. [Not used.] Shak.

HIGH'NESS, n. [hi'ness.]

1. Elevation above the surface; loftiness; altitude; highth.
2. Dignity; elevation in rank, character, or power.
3. Excellence; value. Howell.
4. Violence; as, the highness of wind.
5. Great amount; as, the highness of price.
6. Acuteness; as, the highness of a note or voice.
7. Intenseness, as of heat.
8. A title of honor given to princes nr other men of rank.

HIGH-OP-E-RA'TION, n.

In surgery, a method of extracting the stone from the human bladder, by cutting the upper part of it. Encyc.

HIGH'-PLACE, n.

In Scripture, an eminence or mound on which sacrifices were offered. Before the temple was built in Jerusalem, sacrifices were offered to Jehovah by his worshipers, on high places; but afterward such mounds were devoted to idolatrous sacrifices.

HIGH-PLAC-ED, a.

Elevated in situation or rank. Shak.

HIGH-PRIEST, n.

A chief priest. Scripture.

HIGH-PRIEST-SHIP, n.

Office of a high-priest.

HIGH-PRIN-CI-PLED, a.

Extravagant in notions of politics. Swift.

HIGH-RAIS-ED, a.

1. Elevated; raised aloft. Dryden.
2. Raised with great expectations or conceptions. Milton.