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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1400, 1530-1656
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Heicht, a. Also: hecht, heichtt, heycht, height. [Variant of Heich a., with excrescent -t. Cf. Hicht a.] = Heich a., in various senses.The form heycht generally represents an editorial expansion of the contracted spelling heyt in the manuscripts.(1) a1400 Legends of the Saints iv. 360.
Hyr palace, hecht & square 1569 Protocol Book of J. Drummond 77.
Ane heicht saltfat a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS clxxviii. 90.
Thair … bred hat, Sumtyme heicht and sumtyme plat(2) 1375 Barb. iii. 707.
Sum [ships] wald slyd fra heycht to law 1558-66 Knox I. 166.
Seing that he is heychtar then the heavins a1586 Lindsay MS. 74.
[If] he be weill horsit & heycht he will be sene far of(3) 1530 Master of Works Accounts I. 46 b.
Wynnyng of pend … for the greit windois of the heycht chalmeris 1565 Glasgow Protocols Abstracts III. 66.
The heicht hows, that is to say with hall, chalmer of deis, and the heycht loftis 1583 Glasgow Chart. II. 612.
His tenement, bak and foir, heycht and laicht 1619 Paisley B. Rec. 137.
The heycht houss … at the Croce 1656 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 341.
The electioune of the commissionar to be in the height gallarie(4) 1542 Reg. Cupar A. II. 181.
For … the teyndis of the haill Campsy, heicht and laicht(5) 1562-3 Winȝet I. 133/13.
Science … makis men bowldin and heicht 1564 St. A. Kirk S. 210.
With hecht and presumpteous mynd 1572-5 Diurnal of Occurrents 349.
Schir Johne … grew heicht in consait 1572-5 Ib.
Efter lang heicht talk(6) a1570-86 Maitland Maitland Folio MS xcix. 48.
It is not best ane heycht estait to cheis 1594 Lett. & State P. Jas. VI 7.
Right heicht, right excellent, and mightie Princesse 1622-6 Bisset I. 21/18.
Height the attempt, and the performance rair
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