height (old edd. also spelt “heighth, hight”）
1.
high rank,
degree, or position R2 I. i.
189,
R3 I. iii. 83
“this careful ,”
Tit. IV. ii. 34
“to be advanced to this
height,”
Sonn. xxxii. 8.
2.
highest point,
zenith, summit Err. V. i.
200, John IV. iii. 46,
2H4 II. iii. 63
“the tide swell'd up
unto his ”
(F1),
R3 III. vii. 187
“pitch and ;—at (the)
,”
at the or its highest point, at its height
AYL. V. ii. 51
“at the of
heart-heaviness,”
R3 I. iii. 41 (Qq “highest”), Tit. III. i. 71,
Cæs. IV. iii. 216
“We, at the , are
ready to decline;—in
of,”
at the height of R3 V. iii.
177; “in ,” at his highest
Ant. III. viii. 30
[x. 21]; “in the ,” in the extreme
Ado IV. i. 306, Per. II. iv. 6; “to the ,” to the utmost
H8 I. ii. 214
“traitor to the ,”
Troil. V. i. 3; “on of our” . . .,
on pain of our utmost . . . Tim. III. v. 89.
