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Height   /haɪt/   Listen
noun
Height  n.  (Written also hight)  
1.
The condition of being high; elevated position. "Behold the height of the stars, how high they are!"
2.
The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of an animal, especially of a man; stature. "(Goliath's) height was six cubits and a span."
3.
Degree of latitude either north or south. (Obs.) "Guinea lieth to the north sea, in the same height as Peru to the south."
4.
That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights.
5.
Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preeminence or distinction in society; prominence. "Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts." "All would in his power hold, all make his subjects."
6.
Progress toward eminence; grade; degree. "Social duties are carried to greater heights, and enforced with stronger motives by the principles of our religion."
7.
Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest. "My grief was at the height before thou camest."
On height, aloud. (Obs.) "(He) spake these same words, all on hight."






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"Height" Quotes from Famous Books



... intellectual energies. It would appear from the Ravenna diary (January 28, 1821, Letters, 1901, v. 190,191), that the conception of Lucifer was working in his brain before the "tragedy of Cain" was actually begun. He had been recording a "thought" which had come to him, that "at the very height of human desire and pleasure, a certain sense of doubt and sorrow"—an amari aliquid which links the future to the past, and so blots out the present—"mingles with our bliss," making it of none effect, ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron

... shifted to Tony's first wife, who died (and Tony almost died too) as the result of the landlord's taking up the drains, and leaving them open, in the height of a hot summer. Tony told me about her people and her native place, a fishing village along the coast. He showed me photographs of her, and a framed, pathetically ugly, imitation cameo memorial, which is getting very dirty now. I knew he loved her ...
— A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds

... there when my veins seemed bursting With life's rare rapture and keen delight, And yet in my heart was a constant thirsting For something over the mountain-height. I wanted to stand in the blaze of glory That turned to crimson the peaks of snow, And the winds from the west all breathed a story Of realms and regions I ...
— Poems of Passion • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... gave the rope a pull, and the flag ran up half-way; but as he did so a stone was thrown. It flew past his head, grazing his temple. A sharp point lacerated the flesh, and the blood flowed down his cheek. He ran the flag up to its full height, swiftly knotted the cord and put his back against the pole. Grasping his stick he prepared himself ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... returned late, and at his coming did give me order to cause the marke to be gilded, and a Crown and C. R. to be made at the head of the coach table, where the King to-day with his own hand did mark his height, which accordingly I caused the painter to do, and is now done as ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys


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