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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Hicht, v.¹ Also: hycht, hight, hyght. [ME. hiht, hight (a 1300), var. of heght, etc. Cf. Hecht v.¹ In this form rare after the 15th c.] tr. To promise, vow, undertake. Variously const.(a) a1400 Leg. S. xxxii. 212.
Scho sal cum to thé … To do thi wil; that I thé hicht Ib. xlvi. 143.
The pouere thu hichtis me … I refuse 1407 Bk. Carlaverock II. 418.
The qwylk … lande we … hyghtys to mak … to the forsayd Syr Harbarte c1460 Consail Wys Man 165.
Be nocht lefull to hicht na grant(b) 1375 Barb. II. 206.
[He] hycht all Fyfe In warysoun Till him a1400 Leg. S. x. 323.
He … halfe his kinryk hycht hym sone Ib. xxxviii. 257.
I cume for to cal one thé, As I hicht thé befor c1420 Wynt. viii. 4647.
He fullfillyd all that he hycht 1488 Lanark B. Rec. 4.
To do at he hycht to do a1500 Bk. Chess 663.
Scho wrait him to, so that he wald hir wed … , The quhilk he hicht(c) a1400 Leg. S. xi. 137.
The King of Babylone had hycht on tham of Inde … to fycht Ib. xxxvi. 1016. c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 645.
The syluer and the gold … [that] Was hight thame frome Pryame

b. I hicht, I undertake, I dare say. 1375 Barb. vii. 156.
The kyng, that hungry wes, I hicht Ib. ix. 480.
This schir Eduard, forsuth I hicht, Wes … a nobill knycht ?1438 Alex. i. 1498.
Emynedus the wicht May sie his poynt, forsuth I hicht