heighe

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hēah.

Alternative forms

Adverb

heighe (comparative heigher, superlative heighest)

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

References

Adjective

heighe (comparative heigher, superlative heighest)

  1. Alternative form of heigh (high)

Noun

heighe

  1. Alternative form of heye (hedge)

Yola

Adjective

heighe

  1. Alternative form of heigh (high)
    • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 18:
      Neeghe a heighe thoornes (or thoweares) o' Culpake
      [Nigh to the high thorns of Colepeak.]

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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