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high-placed (hi'plast), a. Elevated in situa- hight 2 t (hit), ., properly pret. ; pret. also hote, 
tion; high m office or rank. pp. hight, prop, hote, hoten. [An anomalous 
He was noble, accomplished, high-placed, but he loved verb whose forms have been confused from 
freedom of thought and act. Harpers Mag., LXXVI. 458. the ME. period. The principal parts are prop. 
A traditionary scourge of the vices and peccadilloes of inf. and iud. pres. hote, pret. Itiqht, pn hoten 
X. ml ., 7th ser., V. ML < ME . (1) ir (tr.) hoten, witl/umlaut heten, 
nign-pressure (hi pvesh'ur), a. Having a high earlier haten, iud. pres. hote, etc., erroneous- 
rate of steam-pressure: as, a higli-pressure en- ly hight, etc., pret. hight, higt, hegt, heht, hct. 
gine. bee high pressure, under pressure. ' ''-' 
high-priesthood (hi'prest'hud), . [< high 
priest + -hood.] The office or dignity of a 
high priest. hoten, etc'., erroneously hight, etc., ind/pres^ 
Almost his first official act was to expel Kaunas from and pret. hatte, hottest, hatte, and hote, hat, 
Wallace, Ben-Hur, p. 79. hight, etc. (the forms being mixed), be called 
or named (orig. a pres. passive, extended to 
pret., etc. : see below) ; = OS. hetan = OFries. 
heta = I), heeten = MLG. listen, LG. heten, hei- 
ten = OHG. heizan, heizzan, MHG. heizen, G. 
heissen = Icel. heita = Sw. heta = Dan. hedde, 
all used as tr., call, and intr., be called, or intr. 
hilarious 
Like being of superior kind, 
In whose hig/i-tuiu-d impartial mind 
Degrees of mortal rank and state 
Seem objects of indifferent weight. 
Scott, Lord of the Isles, ii. 8. 
3. Stylish; fashionable; pretentious. [Colloq., 
U. S.] 
The electric light company of Independence, Mo. will 
put 12 lights in Eden Park, a high-toned residence part of 
this Kansas City suburb. Elect. Rev. (Amer.), XIII. 10. 
., . 
pi. highten, higten, etc., pp. hoten, hote, with v . _. . 
eousl hiht etc. in J&i'^.J-V^"^!*^ 11 ^ *. 
ff'^-f -(- 
-ipl.J Pertaining to a high priest: as, the high- 
priestly dignity. 
[< high 
priest. 
Hav- 
Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs, 
To kiss her burial. Shalt., M. of V., (. 1. 
2. A kind of sweet apple. 
ligh-tur ' 
lodious. 
versified; me- 
Some high-tun'd poem 
Hereafter shall deliver to posterity 
The writer's glory and his subject s triumph. 
Ford, Broken Heart, v. 2. 
~O-~ x r **** v *f ***** V*" JM o-^/luy, l*. i. iinv- w*, vull, oull 1UL1., we < .1 Jl< i|, \JL ill LI , *. . . . . , 
ing high or noble principles; highly honora- only, = Goth, haitan (pret. redupl. haihait (= fllgnty-tlgnty (hi ti-ti ti), a. and inter}. Same 
ble. 2t. Extravae-ant in nnHnna nf nnliHno AS. Ukt. \TK.Turt T,lvt P. hiahfi T */.v//. ' as hoity-toity. 
ble. 2f. Extravagant in notions of politics. 
Johnson. 
AS. heht, ME. hegt, higt, E. hight), pp. Jiaitans), 
command, order, call, name, with pres. passive 
The political creed of all the high-principled men I have htlitada (= AS. hatte, pres., used also as pret., 
iet with. Surift. from its similarity in form tn a. wanlr nm>f 1 
Swift. 
high-proof (hi'prSf), a. 1. Highly rectified; 
strongly alcoholic: as, high-proof spirits. 2 
., 
from its similarity in form to a weak pret.). 
This verb, the only one in AS. and E. preserving 
a trace of the orig. passive inflection, has been 
ity-toity. 
You know very well what I mean, sir ! Don't try to 
irn me off in that highty-tighty way! 
Thackeray, Newcomes, xlii. 
i-vicedf (hi'vist), a. Audaciously wicked. 
, -ro sprs. . , en 
Severely tested ; capable of standing any test, misunderstood and misused ; in modern poets 
i^uM-uhim. /k;/_xv,j \ .. 
high-reaching (hi're'ching), . 1. Reaching 
to a great height. 
At last appear 
Hell bounds, high reaching to the horrid roof, 
And thrice threefold the gates. Milton, P. L., ii. 644. 
2. Ambitious; aspiring. 
High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect. 
Shak., Rich. III., iv. 2. 
highroad (hi'rod), n. 1. A road made for gen- 
eral travel, usually, from the mode of its con- 
struction, more or less elevated above the com- 
mon level; hence, a common road; a road for 
the use of all travelers and vehicles ; a high- 
way. 
The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is 
the high-road that leads him to England. 
Johnson, in Boswell, an. 1763. 
Hence 2. An easy course; a way or method 
offering great facility or convenience : as, the 
highroad to success. 
The highroad out of Christianity. 
N. A. Rev., CXXVI. 829. 
high-SOUled (hi'sold), n. Having a high soul; 
having exalted principles or feelings. 
There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared 
the finest gentleman of the age, ... the ingenious, the 
chivalrous, the high-iouled Windham. 
Macautay, Warren Hastings. 
high-sounding (hi'souii'ding), a. 1. Resonant. 
Ah, tinkling cymbal, and high-sounding brass ! 
Cowper, Task, v. 681. 
2. Of pompous or pretentious import ; having 
an imposing sound : as, high-sounding titles. 
high-spirited (hi'spir"it-ed), a. Having a high 
spirit; bold; mettlesome; sensitive. 
The royal army consisted in great part of gentlemen, 
high-spirited, ardent, accustomed to consider dishonour 
as more terrible than death. Macaulay. 
high-stepper (hi'step'er), n. 1. A horse that 
lifts its feet high from the ground. 
He'd a hiyh-steppcr always in his stall. j /v,-/*- H. j\ 
Lowell, Fitz Adam's Story, "Sh-tasted ( tas'ted), a. 
Hence 2. A person having a dashing or 
showy walk or bearing. 
[The beauty] which makes a woman be called, when 
young and in good action, "showy " and " a high-stepper " 
Mrs. J. H. Riddell, Too Much Alone, xxix. 
high-stepping (hi'step"ing), a. Having a proud 
or showy action or gait. 
A phaeton with high-stepping bays. 
Murray, Round about France, p. 349. 
high-Street (hi'stret), n. [< ME. hege strete, 
etc.; < high - "~ 
way.~\ In E 
country town, 
ally the continuation of the highway. 
The dull high-street, which has the usual characteristics 
of a small agricultural market town, some sombre man- 
sions, a dingy inn, and a petty bourse. 
Disraeli, Sibyl, p. 54. 
high-strung (hl'strung), . Strung to a high oftnevear 
pitch; in a state of great tension; high-spirit- . . 
ed; having a sensitive or highly organized ner- *Ug-toned (hi tond), a. 1. High in pitch: as, 
vous system. a high-toned instrument. 
Be as a planetary plague, when Jove 
Will o'er some high-vic'd city hang his poison 
In the sick air. Shak., T. of A., Iv. S. 
highway (hi'wa), n. [< ME. heigh weye, heig 
waye, etc. ; equiv. to highroad, high-street, and 
highgate; with reference to the elevation of such 
roads above the adjacent surface : see highroad, 
etc.] 1 . A public road or passage ; a way open 
to all passengers, by either land or water. 
He loked in Bemysdale, 
By the hye waye. 
Lytell Oette of Robyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 81). 
Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them 
to come in. Luke xiv. 28. 
The summer droughts rendered the Tennessee River 
useless as a military highway. The Century, XXXVI. 676. 
2. In law, any road or way, whether for foot- 
passengers, beasts of burden, or vehicles, or all, 
over which all persons, as members of the pub- 
lic, have a right to pass. The word is commonly re- 
stricted to a way that is at or intended for vehicles as well 
as for foot-passengers and animals. 
3. Figuratively, a common or easy way or 
course. 
So she [the falcon] makes her highway over the steepest 
mountains and deepest rivers. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 25. 
I could mention more trades we have lost, and are in 
the highway to lose. Sir J. Child, Trade. 
Men were striking away from all the proper and respec- 
table highways of thought into paths no decorous person 
had ever thought of. 
J. W. Hales, Int. to Milton's Areopagitica. 
Commissioners of highways. See commissioner. 
Dunstable highway, see dunstable. Highway rob- 
bery. See robbery. 
highwayman (hi'wa-man), n. ; pi. highwaymen 
(-men). [< highway + man.'] A robber on the 
highway; one who robs passengers in public 
roads or places. 
The guard whispered that he had shot a highwayman 
and cudgeled a gipsy before he turned into the inn-yard 
at Bolingstone. J. W. Palmer, After his Kind, p. 103. 
Even a walk or drive to Kensington or Chelsea, both 
country villages at that time [1780-1736], was not under- 
~ taken without fear of highwaymen or footpads. 
, piquant. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLIII. 379. 
hlghtener. See heighten, heightens. Mgh-wrought (hi'rat), a. 1. Wrought with a 
ath),. An obsolete or provincial form hfgh^degree of art or skill; finely finished.- 
What in me is dark 
Illumine, what is low raise and support ; 
That to the highth of this great argument 
I may assert eternal Providence. 
Milton, P. L., L 24. 
Even highth, which is thought peculiarly Miltonic is 
common (in Hakluyt, for example), and still often heard in 
it is often an imitation of Spenser.] I. trans. 
1 . To command ; order ; bid. 
The damesel dude [did] ase sche higt. 
Sir Ferumbras, 1. 1262. 
But the sad steele seizd not, where it was hi:il,t, 
Uppon the Childe. Spenser, F. Q., V. xi. 8. 
So the sage had hight to play his part, 
That he should see her form in life and limb. 
Scott, L. of L. M., vL 16. 
2. To promise ; assure. 
Palamon, that is thyn owne knight, 
Schal ban his lady as thou hast him hight. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1614. 
[In this sense Chaucer has only the preterit and past par- 
ticiple, never the present.] 
If the pope or ani other . . . graunt and higt to ani 
man indulgence, . . . the! selle swilk thingis to hem. 
WyclV, Apol., p. 10. 
And, man, ofte tyme thou hast me higt 
Thou woldist amende, & leue folie. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. 1'urnivall), p. 183. 
3. To call; name. [Archaic in this use.] 
The sevenfrmayister [master] was hoten Marcius. 
Seven Sages, 1. 91. 
But reade you, Sir, sith ye my name have hight, 
What is your owne, that I mote you requite 1 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. vi. 4. 
Childe Harold was he hight. 
Byron, Childe Harold, i. 3. 
4. To mention. [Rare.] 
A shepheard trewe, yet not so true, 
As he that earst I hate. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., July. 
II. in trans, (orig. passive). To be called; be 
named; have as a name. 
Thus lefte ludas the place voyde till that oure lorde set 
ther a-nother, that hight Matheu. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.\ L 59. 
Bright is her hue and Geraldine she hight. 
Surrey, Geraldine. 
high-taper (hi'ta"per), n. A corruption of hag- 
taper, a name of the mullen. 
Having a strong 
tense: as, high-wrought passion. 
Man. What from the cape can you discern at sea? 
1 Gent. Nothing at all : it is a high-wrought flood. 
Shak., Othello, ii. 1. 
He is too scornful, too high-wrought, too bitter ! 
M. Arnold, Empedocles. 
oort, 
, ,., , uareu-ueiiru, irencii-sage, nvjiaper, or wooaai-muilem. 
wedding, = Dan. hojtid = Sw. hogtid, a great Florio. 
festival); < high + tide. Cf. high-day.] Agreat H. I. H. An abbreviation of His (or Her) Im- 
festival. [Rare.] perial Highness. 
One may hope it will be annual and perennial ; a Feast Mia., n. Plural of hilum. 
of Pikes, Fete des Piques, notablest among the hightidfs hllar (hi'lar), a. [< hil-um + -Ctr 3 .~\ 1. inzool. 
he I** 1 - Carlyle, French Rev., II. i. 10. and anat.", pertaining to a hilum, as of the kid- 
ney. 2. In hot., belonging to the hilum or scar 
produced by the attachment of a seed, 
hilaratet (hil'a-rat), v. t. [< L. Mlaratus, pp. 
The time is now here when the Government should lift He read the service rather with strong nervous voice &4 a , rate ' ( nl1 a -rat), " ' L< L. InlaratuS, pp. 
its embargo from a great industry, and cease to regard tnan a 8 ra( =eful manner ; his voice was sharp and high- of Imarare ( > It. ilarar), cheer, gladden, < hila- 
this delightful plant [tobacco], this gift of the pods to toned * tha " harmonious. rig cheerful, glad : see hilarious, and cf. exhila- 
tfrfrrfru-9 humanity, as the Upas tree of agriculture '*, Swift (Lives of Poets, III. 438). mfe ,.-, To exhilarate. Cockeram. 
high-strung humanity, as the Upas tree of agriculture 
Nineteenth Century, XXIV. 570. 
hight 1 , . See height. 
Johnson, Swift (Lives of Poets, m. 438). ra ^ To exhilarate. Cockeram. 
2. Having high principles; dignified; self-re- hilarious (hi- or hi-la'ri-us), a, [< OF. hila- 
spectmg: as, a higli-toned character. rious, hilarieux, < L. as if 'hilariosus, for hilaris, 
