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