\Be*hight"\, v. t. [imp. {Behight}; p. p. {Behight},
{Behoten}.] [OE. bihaten, AS. beh[=a]tan to vow, promise;
pref. be- + h[=a]tan to call, command. See {Hight}, v.] [Obs.
in all its senses.]
1. To promise; to vow.
         Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve. --Surrey.
2. To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.
         The keys are to thy hand behight.     --Spenser.
3. To adjudge; to assign by authority.
         The second was to Triamond behight.   --Spenser.
4. To mean, or intend.
         More than heart behighteth.           --Mir. for
                                               Mag.
5. To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
         All the lookers-on him dead behight.  --Spenser.
6. To call; to name; to address.
         Whom . . . he knew and thus behight.  --Spenser.
7. To command; to order.
         He behight those gates to be unbarred. --Spenser.

\Be*hight"\, n.
A vow; a promise. [Obs.] --Surrey.