behight

verb7

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(dialect, Northern-England) To be designated.
- Wheea behight thee? = What is your name/to whom do you belong?
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(no longer used) To call; to name; to address.
- Whom […] he knew and thus behight. — 1596
(no longer used) To vow, promise (someone).
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(no longer used) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
- But nathelesse whilst all the lookers on / Him dead behight, as he to all appeard, / All vnawares he started vp anon, — 1596
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(no longer used) To give in trust; to commit; to entrust.
- The keys are to thy hand behight. — 1590
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(no longer used) To command; to order.
- And his well proued weapons to him hent; / So taking courteous conge he behight, / Those gates to be vnbar'd, and forth he went. — 1590
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(no longer used) To mean, or intend.
- More than heart behighteth. — 1559

forms

behighted · behighting · behights