Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HIGH-REACH-ING, a.

1. Reaching to a great highth.
2. Reaching upward. Milton.
3. Ambitious; aspiring. Shak.

HIGH-REAR-ED, a.

Raised high; of lofty structure. Shak.

HIGH-RED, a.

Having a strong red color; deeply red. Boyle.

HIGH-RE-PENT'ED, a.

Deeply repented. [Ill.] Shak.

HIGH-RE-SOLV'ED, a.

Very resolute. Tit. Andron.

HIGH-ROOF-ED, a.

Having a lofty or sharp roof. Milton.

HIGH-SEA-SON-ED, a.

Enriched with spices or other seasoning.

HIGH-SEAT-ED, a.

Fixed on high; seated in an elevate place. Milton.

HIGH-SIGHT-ED, a.

Always looking upward. Shak.

HIGH'-SOUL-ED, a.

Having a high spirit. Everett.

HIGH'-SOUND-ING, a.

Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.

HIGH-SPIR-IT-ED, a.

1. Full of spirit or natural fire; easily irritated; irascible.
2. Full of spirit; bold; daring.

HIGH'-STOM-ACH-ED, a.

Having a lofty spirit; proud; obstinate. Shak.

HIGH'-SWELL-ED, a.

Swelled to a great highth.

HIGH'-SWELL-ING, a.

Swelling greatly; inflated; boastful.

HIGH-SWOLN, a.

Greatly swelled. Shak.

HIGH-TA-PER, n.

A plant of the genus Verbascum. Fam. of Plants.

HIGH-TAST-ED, a.

Having a strong relish; piquant. Denham.

HIGHT'EN-ER, n.

One that hightens.

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 It is obsolete.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.

HIGH'-TIME, n.

Quite time; full time for the occasion, or the time when any thing is to be done.

HIGH'-TON-ED, a.

High in sound.

HIGH-TOW-ER-ED, a.

Having lofty towers. Milton.

HIGH-VIC-ED, a.

Enormously wicked. Shak.

HIGH'WA-TER, n.

The utmost flow or greatest elevation of the tide; also, the time of such elevation.