Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HIGHTH, or HIGHT
HIGHTH, or HIGHT, n. [See Height.]
Elevation; altitude; loftiness. [It is very desirable that this noun should be regularly formed from the adjective.] Hight, to call, to promise, to command, &c. is a false orthography, from Saxon hatan. It is obsolete. [See Heat.] Chaucer. Spenser.
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