behight (English, verb)
expansion: behight (third-person singular simple present behights, present participle behighting, simple past and past participle behight or behighted)
Senses:
glosses: To vow, promise (someone).
tags: obsolete
transitive
glosses: To be designated.
tags: Northern-England
dialectal
glosses: To give in trust; to commit; to entrust.
tags: obsolete
transitive
glosses: To mean, or intend.
tags: obsolete
glosses: To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
tags: obsolete
glosses: To call; to name; to address.
tags: obsolete
glosses: To command; to order.
tags: obsolete
Forms:
form: behights
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: behighting
tags: participle
present
form: behight
tags: participle
past
form: behight
tags: past
form: behighted
tags: participle
past
form: behighted
tags: past
form: behote
tags: alternative