"hye" meaning in English

See hye in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: hyer [comparative], hyest [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} hye (comparative hyer, superlative hyest)
  1. Obsolete spelling of high. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: high
    Sense id: en-hye-en-adj-c5TlzrQA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52

Verb

Forms: hyes [present, singular, third-person], hying [participle, present], hyeing [participle, present], hyed [participle, past], hyed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|~s|hying|~d|pres_ptc2=~ing}} hye (third-person singular simple present hyes, present participle hying or hyeing, simple past and past participle hyed)
  1. Obsolete spelling of hie. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: hie
    Sense id: en-hye-en-verb-dTj6x8OO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:",
          "text": "On th' other side in all mens open vew Duessa placed is, and on a tree Sans-foy his[*] shield is hangd with bloody hew: Both those[*] the lawrell girlonds to the victor dew. 45 VI A shrilling trompet sownded from on hye, And unto battaill bad them selves addresse: Their shining shieldes about their wrestes they tye, And burning blades about their heads do blesse, The instruments of wrath and heavinesse: 50 With greedy force each other doth assayle, And strike so fiercely, that they do impresse Deepe dinted furrowes in the battred mayle; The yron walles to ward their blowes are weak and fraile.",
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          "ref": "1661, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 357:",
          "text": "The beauty and glory of it is yn two streetes, whereof the hye street goes from est to west, having a righte goodely crosse in the middle of it, making a quadrivium, and goeth from north to south.\"",
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          "ref": "1594, Christopher Marlowe, Massacre at Paris:",
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