English Dictionary

hight

verb

(obsolete) simple past tense of hote / (archaic, transitive) To call, name. / (archaic, intransitive) To be called or named. / (archaic, dialectal) To command; to enjoin.

He hight to go to the store.

意味（1）

(obsolete) simple past tense of hote

意味（2）

(archaic, transitive) To call, name.

But if that I knewe what his name hight,

For clatering of me I would him ſone quight;

For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never,

But if that I knewe what his name hight, For clatering of me I would him ſone quight; For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never, I could make him ſhortly repent him forever: […]

意味（3）

(archaic, intransitive) To be called or named.

Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight.

意味（4）

(archaic, dialectal) To command; to enjoin.

I hight ye take me wi' ye. I ne can no lenger her b'live.