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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Hye, a. Also: hy; compar. hy(e)ar(e, hyer(e; superl. hy(e)ast, hyest. [Spelling var. of Hie, He, a., perh. partly after ME. and e.m.E. hye, hy (14–16th c.).] High, in various usual senses.(1) a1400 Leg. S. xxxix. 196.
A hye tre c1460 Thewis Wysmen 37.
Als far as … hevyne is na the erd mare hye [: be] Brus x. 594 (C).
The crag wes hye a1500 Lanc. 426.
O place, that strong was and hye [: hee pron.] 1513 Doug. xi. v. 13.
The hevynnys hye(b) Brus x. 28 (C).
I trow that nocht … Ane hyer [E. heyar] hill may fundyn be a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 336.
On Arthuris Sete or on ane hyar hyll(c) c1420 Wynt. ii. 470.
On the hyest [hill] … Thai oure-bade that felowne flude 1513 Doug. iv. viii. 74.
The hyast branchys 1585 James VI Ess. 16.
Weltring waues, lyke hyest towres on land(2) a1400 Leg. S. xxxvii. 90.
[That] thai mone de That byding brakis of princis hye 1456 Hay I. 2/22.
At the request of ane hye and mychty Prince Ib. II. 145/3.
The hye and glorious almychti God c1460 Wisd. Sol. 386.
Lo how I ame maid so hye & mychty 1513 Doug. vi. ix. 129 (R).
The hye fader almychty 1682 Lauder Observes 68.
Sir George Gordon … to be Lord Hy Chancelor of Scotland(b) a1400 Leg. S. xxxvii. 94.
Oure godis ȝe do honoure til … As ȝe se hyeare princis do c1420 Wynt. v. 828.
Ane empryowre suld ay … Than the erde fere hyere [W. hyare] be 1456 Hay I. 191/27.
Till appele to ane hyar juge(c) a1400 Leg. S. xxxvii. 91.
Hyeast warldly princis c1400 Troy-bk. i. 69.
Leamedone that hyast king 1456 Misc. Bann. C. III. 97.
As he will answer befor the hyeast iuge 1456 Hay I. 109/5.
The Emperour is the hyest of temporale princis 1513 Doug. i. vi. 130.
Lynage cum from hyast Jupiter(3) 1456 Hay I. 153/18.
Quhare he has bathe hye and law … jurisdictioun Ib. II. 2/16.
The bachelere quhilk suld ressave that hye order Ib. 45/28.
The knychtis honour, that is the hyast poynt of his ordre Brus i. 608.
God … Preserwyt him till hyer hycht 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 15.
The rectour most be ane … doctor or bachelar in the hyear faculteis(4) 1456 Hay II. 48/35.
As he is sett … abone a hye coursour, sa suld his curage be hye Ib. 155/34.
That he be of hye undertaking … and of hye hert c1475 Wall. viii. 1430.
Your hye witt and gud consaill(5) 1529 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 15.
For his bying of the kingis money apone ane hyear prys na it is strikin for 1557 Inverness B. Rec. I. 7.
To … pay … the hyest price of ane boll wyttuell(6) absol. 1456 Hay II. 140/25.
Of all wynis the best ar thai that growis betuix the hye and the lawe in mydlyn erde, that is nouthir our hye na our law erde 1531 Rec. Earld. Orkney 214.
Fra the hyest of the hill to the lawest in the ebbe(7) 1456 Hay II. 92/22.
It efferis till a king to be … of faire langage with a hye voce … that he may be hird with all his peple(8) 1456 Hay II. 6/26.
He … waverit fra his folk out of the hye way Brus viii. 164 (C).
The hye gat(9) Brus ii. 33.
In the Freris, at the hye awter 1495 Reg. Brechin II. 316.
The vestiamentis of the hye altar — 1507 Grant Chart. 46.
In tyme off the solempnyte of the hye mes a 1579 Prot. Bk. W. Douglas 280 b.
Vpoun ane festual day the tyme of the hymes Ib.
The tyme of the hye mes