Behight

imp. Behight; p. p. Behight

1. To promise; to vow. [Obs. in all its senses.]

   Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve.

2. To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.

   The keys are to thy hand behight.

3. To adjudge; to assign by authority.

   The second was to Triamond behight.

4. To mean, or intend.

   More than heart behighteth.

5. To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.

   All the lookers-on him dead behight.

6. To call; to name; to address.

   Whom . . . he knew and thus behight.

7. To command; to order.

   He behight those gates to be unbarred.

1. A vow; a promise. [Obs.]