Behight

Be`hight´

v. t.	1.	To promise; to vow. [imp. Behight; p. p. Behight, Behoten.] 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.
n.	1.	A vow; a promise.