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hight

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hight  (ht)
adj. Archaic
Named or called.
[Middle English, past participle of highten, hihten, to call, be called, from hehte, hight, past tense of hoten, from Old English htan; see kei-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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It is the knight's pavilion, said Merlin, that ye fought with last, Sir Pellinore, but he is out, he is not there; he hath ado with a knight of yours, that hight Egglame, and they have fought together, but at the last Egglame fled, and else he had been dead, and he hath chased him even to Carlion, and we shall meet with him anon in the highway.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
Oh, never, surely, was there knight So served by hand of dame, As served was he, Don Quixote hight, When from his town he came; With maidens waiting on himself, Princesses on his hack-
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
As every one knows, it is in the neighborhood of one hundred and eighty feet high--and I beg to observe that one hundred and eighty feet reach to about the hight of four ordinary three-story buildings piled one on top of the other, and is a very considerable altitude for a tower of uniform thickness to aspire to, even when it stands upright--yet this one leans more than thirteen feet out of the perpendicular.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
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