heighe

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hēah.

Alternative forms

Adverb

heighe (comparative heigher, superlative heighest)

  1. high
Descendants
  • English: high
  • Scots: heich

References

Etymology 2

Adjective

heighe (comparative heigher, superlative heighest)

  1. Alternative form of heigh (“high”)

Etymology 3

Noun

heighe

  1. Alternative form of heye (“hedge”)

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Adjective

heighe

  1. Alternative form of heigh (“high”)
    • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 18:
      Neeghe a heighe thoornes (or thoweares) o' Culpake

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 18
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