behight
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Is behight a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) No
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends No
What is the meaning of behight?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, transitive) To vow, promise (someone).Examples: "Thenne I behote yow sayd Balyn parte of his blood to hele youre sone with alle."obsoletetransitive
2. (dialectal, Northern England) To be designated.Examples: "Wheea behight thee? = What is your name/to whom do you belong?"Northern-Englanddialectal
3. (obsolete, transitive) To give in trust; to commit; to entrust.Examples: "The keys are to thy hand behight."obsoletetransitive
4. (obsolete) To mean, or intend.Examples: "More than heart behighteth."obsolete
5. (obsolete) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.Examples: "But nathelesse whilst all the lookers on / Him dead behight, as he to all appeard, / All vnawares he started vp anon,"obsolete
6. (obsolete) To call; to name; to address.Examples: "Whom […] he knew and thus behight."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A vow; a promise.obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary