See hight on Wiktionary
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"ref": "c. 1515, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c., published 1568:",
"text": "But if that I knewe what his name hight,\nFor clatering of me I would him ſone quight;\nFor his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never,\nI could make him ſhortly repent him forever: […]",
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"text": "Childe Harold was he hight.",
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"ref": "1905, Howard Pyle, “The Story of Launcelot”, in The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 66:",
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"ref": "c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:",
"text": "[…] I did incounter that obſeene and moſt prepoſterous euent that draweth frõ my ſnowhite pen the ebon coloured Incke, which here thou vieweſt, beholdeſt, ſuruayeſt, or ſeeſt. […] There did I ſee that low ſpirited Swaine, […] hight Coſtard, (Clow[ne]. O mee) ſorted and conſorted contrary to thy eſtabliſhed proclaymed Edict and continent Cannon; Which with, o with, but with this I paſſion to ſay wherewith: / Clo[wne]. With a Wench.",
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"text": "I hight ye take me wi' ye. I ne can no lenger her b'live.",
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"text": "Malaise priest of Innishmurry / Hights me go, and I obey.",
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"word": "ຊື່"
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"roman": "hkau",
"word": "ခေါ်"
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{
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"lang": "Catalan",
"word": "dir-se"
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{
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiào",
"word": "叫"
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"word": "稱為"
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "chēngwéi",
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"word": "s’appeler"
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"code": "sv",
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"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "chʉ̂ʉ",
"word": "ชื่อ"
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"note": "use ཟེར (zer)"
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"lang": "Tibetan",
"note": "ཞུ (zhu) (honorific) + possessor: ལ་དོན (la don) (oblique/dative-locative case) (ལ/-ར (la / -ra))"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
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"code": "vo",
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"word": "panemön"
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