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Webster 1913 Edition
Height
Height
(hīt)
, Noun.
[Written also
hight
.] [OE.
heighte
, heght
, heighthe
, AS. heáhðu
, hēhðu
fr. heah
high; akin to D. hoogte
, Sw. höjd
, Dan. höide
, Icel. hæð
, Goth. hauhiþa
. See High
.] 1.
The condition of being high; elevated position.
Behold the
height
of the stars, how high they are! Job xxii. 12.
2.
The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of an animal, especially of a man; stature.
Bacon.
[Goliath’s]
height
was six cubits and a span. 1 Sam. xvii. 4.
3.
Degree of latitude either north or south.
[Obs.]
Guinea lieth to the north sea, in the same
height
as Peru to the south. Abp. Abbot.
4.
That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain;
as, Alpine
. heights
Dryden.
5.
Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preëminence or distinction in society; prominence.
Measure your mind's
height
by the shade it casts. R. Browning.
All would in his power hold, all make his subjects.
Chapman.
6.
Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.
Social duties are carried to greater
heights
, and enforced with stronger motives by the principles of our religion. Addison.
7.
Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition;
as, the
height
of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height
of a tempest.My grief was at the
height
before thou camest. Shakespeare
On height
, aloud.
[Obs.]
[He] spake these same words, all
on hight
. Chaucer.