Definition for BE-HIGHT'

BE-HIGHT', v.t. [behite; pret. behot. Sax. behetan, to promise.]

To promise; to intrust; to call, or name; to command; to adjudge; to address; to inform; to mean; to reckon. The orthography is corrupt; it should be behite. [Obs.] – Spenser. Chaucer.

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