Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete or provincial form of height.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Variant of height.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete height

Etymologies

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From Old English hēahþu, hēhþu, hīehþu, equivalent to high +‎ -th. Cognate with Dutch hoogte.

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Examples

  • If I am writing about width and variant, I don't think I'd ever write "highth" -- it's just not proper.

    Archive 2004-06-01 2004

  • If I am writing about width and variant, I don't think I'd ever write "highth" -- it's just not proper.

    07/04 2004

  • If I am writing about width and variant, I don't think I'd ever write "highth" -- it's just not proper.

    06/04 2004

  • If I am writing about width and variant, I don't think I'd ever write "highth" -- it's just not proper.

    06/04 2004

  • More often than not, if I am talking about the width and insert variant here of something, I say "highth" and then feel stupid, but it's one of those words that you can't do a darn thing about, because you grew up with it.

    07/04 2004

  • More often than not, if I am talking about the width and insert variant here of something, I say "highth" and then feel stupid, but it's one of those words that you can't do a darn thing about, because you grew up with it.

    06/04 2004

  • But, "highth" is all through Milton's Paradise Lost, and stuck around the vernacular because of its association to other measuring-related words ending in "th", e.g. width, breadth, length.

    Archive 2004-06-01 2004

  • But, "highth" is all through Milton's Paradise Lost, and stuck around the vernacular because of its association to other measuring-related words ending in "th", e.g. width, breadth, length.

    06/04 2004

  • But, "highth" is all through Milton's Paradise Lost, and stuck around the vernacular because of its association to other measuring-related words ending in "th", e.g. width, breadth, length.

    06/04 2004

  • More often than not, if I am talking about the width and insert variant here of something, I say "highth" and then feel stupid, but it's one of those words that you can't do a darn thing about, because you grew up with it.

    06/04 2004

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