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Hicht, v.³ Also: hycht, hight. [Var. of Heicht v.]

1. tr. To raise in amount (rent, prices, wages, etc.). 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 123/30.
The malis … of the grond that I lauhir is hychtit to sic ane price [etc.] 1556 Criminal Trials I. i. 389.
That na pryces thairof … be rasit or hichtit vpone thame 1572 Satirical Poems xxxiii. 245.
Ȝe hicht thair maills 1636 Aberd. Council Lett. II. 55.
The custume thairof can not he farder highted nor it is at the present 1651 Ib. III. 293.
For getting our proportioun maid les, at least not hichtit 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. i. xxiii. § v.
The advising these who are to sell to hight the price 1715 Household Bk. G. Baillie 157.
James Grives wages I highted … to £4

b. To raise the rent or dues payable by (a person). 1518 (1584) Perth Hammermen 1.
Quha that takis ane uther mans boith … or that hychtis him in till his maill 1540 Lynd. Sat. 2569.
For sum ar hichtit sa into thair maill 1584 Acts III. 349/2.
That they sall nocht he alterit, hichtit, In maill or dewtie 1650 Aberd. Council Lett. III. 171.
If they will press to hicht us, ye ar to protest againes them 1657 Ib. 292.
Ther is non almoist that will consent to be hichtit in the least

2. To make higher, heighten, raise. Also fig. 1617 Stirling B. Rec. I. 146.
The heid of the barres yett to he hichtit … & repairit 1683 Rec. Old Aberd. II. 80.
The master … shall keep a sixpence of the officers fie that shall he found to have highted the grave 1684 Glamis Bk. Rec. 38.
After I had highted the walls of the great roundfig. 1648 Gen. Assembly II. 54.
That which would hight this sinne even to the heavens is this [etc.]