\Hight\, n.
A variant of {Height}.

\Hight\, v. t. & i. [imp. {Hight}, {Hot}, p. p. {Hight},
{Hote} (?), {Hoten} (?). See {Hote}.] [OE. heiten, highten,
haten, hoten; also hight, hatte, hette, is called, was
called, AS. h[=a]tan to call, name, be called, to command,
promise; also h[=a]tte is called, was called; akin to G.
heissen to call, be called, bid, Goth. haitan to call, in the
passive, to be called.]
1. To be called or named. [Archaic & Poetic.]
Note: In the form hight, it is used in a passive sense as a
      present, meaning is called or named, also as a
      preterite, was called or named. This form has also been
      used as a past participle. See {Hote}.
            The great poet of Italy, That highte Dante.
                                               --Chaucer.
            Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight.
                                               --Surrey.
            Entered then into the church the Reverend
            Teacher. Father he hight, and he was, in the
            parish.                            --Longfellow.
            Childe Harold was he hight.        --Byron.
2. To command; to direct; to impel. [Obs.]
         But the sad steel seized not where it was hight Upon
         the child, but somewhat short did fall. --Spenser.
3. To commit; to intrust. [Obs.]
         Yet charge of them was to a porter hight. --Spenser.
4. To promise. [Obs.]
         He had hold his day, as he had hight. --Chaucer.