[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

high \high\, a. compar. higher; superl. highest. oe.
   high, hegh, hey, heh, as. he'ah, h?h; akin to os. h?h,
   ofries. hag, hach, d. hoog, ohg. h?h, g. hoch, icel. h?r, sw.
   h"og, dan. h"oi, goth. hauhs, and to icel. haugr mound,
   g. h"ugel hill, lith. kaukaras.
   1. elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a
      line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or
      extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as,
      a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high.
      1913 webster

   2. regarded as raised up or elevated; distinguished;
      remarkable; conspicuous; superior; -- used indefinitely or
      relatively, and often in figurative senses, which are
      understood from the connection; as
      a elevated in character or quality, whether moral or
          intellectual; pre"eminent; honorable; as, high aims,
          or motives. "the highest faculty of the soul."
          --baxter.
      b exalted in social standing or general estimation, or
          in rank, reputation, office, and the like; dignified;
          as, she was welcomed in the highest circles.
          1913 webster

                he was a wight of high renown.    --shak.
      c of noble birth; illustrious; as, of high family.
      d of great strength, force, importance, and the like;
          strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes,
          triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high
          wind; high passions. "with rather a high manner."
          --thackeray.
          1913 webster

                strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
                                                  --ps. lxxxix.
                                                  13.
          1913 webster

                can heavenly minds such high resentment show?
                                                  --dryden.
          1913 webster
      e very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount;
          grand; noble.
          1913 webster

                both meet to hear and answer such high things.
                                                  --shak.
          1913 webster

                plain living and high thinking are no more.
                                                  --wordsworth.
      f costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods
          at a high price.
          1913 webster

                if they must be good at so high a rate, they
                know they may be safe at a cheaper. --south.
      g arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud; ostentatious; --
          used in a bad sense.
          1913 webster

                an high look and a proud heart . . . is sin.
                                                  --prov. xxi.
                                                  4.
          1913 webster

                his forces, after all the high discourses,
                amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot.
                                                  --clarendon.
          1913 webster

   3. possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or
      superior degree; as, high i. e., intense heat; high i.
      e., full or quite noon; high i. e., rich or spicy
      seasoning; high i. e., complete pleasure; high i. e.,
      deep or vivid color; high i. e., extensive, thorough
      scholarship, etc.
      1913 webster

            high time it is this war now ended were. --spenser.
      1913 webster

            high sauces and spices are fetched from the indies.
                                                  --baker.
      1913 webster

   4. cookery strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures
      do not cook game before it is high.
      1913 webster

   5. mus. acute or sharp; -- opposed to grave or low; as,
      a high note.
      1913 webster

   6. phon. made with a high position of some part of the
      tongue in relation to the palate, as =e =eve, =oo
      f=ood. see guide to pronunciation, sectsect 10,
      11.
      1913 webster

   high admiral, the chief admiral.

   high altar, the principal altar in a church.

   high and dry, out of water; out of reach of the current or
      tide; -- said of a vessel, aground or beached.

   high and mighty arrogant; overbearing. colloq.

   high art, art which deals with lofty and dignified subjects
      and is characterized by an elevated style avoiding all
      meretricious display.

   high bailiff, the chief bailiff.

   high church,  low church, two ecclesiastical parties in
      the church of england and the protestant episcopal church.
      the high-churchmen emphasize the doctrine of the apostolic
      succession, and hold, in general, to a sacramental
      presence in the eucharist, to baptismal regeneration, and
      to the sole validity of episcopal ordination. they attach
      much importance to ceremonies and symbols in worship.
      low-churchmen lay less stress on these points, and, in
      many instances, reject altogether the peculiar tenets of
      the high-church school. see broad church.

   high constable law, a chief of constabulary. see
      constable, n., 2.

   high commission court, a court of ecclesiastical
      jurisdiction in england erected and united to the regal
      power by queen elizabeth in 1559. on account of the abuse
      of its powers it was abolished in 1641.

   high day script., a holy or feast day. --john xix. 31.

   high festival eccl., a festival to be observed with full
      ceremonial.

   high german, or high dutch. see under german.

   high jinks, an old scottish pastime; hence, noisy revelry;
      wild sport. colloq. "all the high jinks of the county,
      when the lad comes of age." --f. harrison.

   high latitude geog., one designated by the higher
      figures; consequently, a latitude remote from the equator.
      

   high life, life among the aristocracy or the rich.

   high liver, one who indulges in a rich diet.

   high living, a feeding upon rich, pampering food.

   high mass. r. c. ch. see under mass.

   high milling, a process of making flour from grain by
      several successive grindings and intermediate sorting,
      instead of by a single grinding.

   high noon, the time when the sun is in the meridian.

   high place script., an eminence or mound on which
      sacrifices were offered.

   high priest. see in the vocabulary.

   high relief. fine arts see alto-rilievo.

   high school. see under school.

   high seas law, the open sea; the part of the ocean not in
      the territorial waters of any particular sovereignty,
      usually distant three miles or more from the coast line.
      --wharton.

   high steam, steam having a high pressure.

   high steward, the chief steward.

   high tea, tea with meats and extra relishes.

   high tide, the greatest flow of the tide; high water.

   high time.
      a quite time; full time for the occasion.
      b a time of great excitement or enjoyment; a carousal.
          slang

   high treason, treason against the sovereign or the state,
      the highest civil offense. see treason.
      1913 webster

   note: it is now sufficient to speak of high treason as
         treason simply, seeing that petty treason, as a
         distinct offense, has been abolished. --mozley  w.

   high water, the utmost flow or greatest elevation of the
      tide; also, the time of such elevation.

   high-water mark.
      a that line of the seashore to which the waters
          ordinarily reach at high water.
      b a mark showing the highest level reached by water in a
          river or other body of fresh water, as in time of
          freshet.

   high-water shrub bot., a composite shrub iva
      frutescens, growing in salt marshes along the atlantic
      coast of the united states.

   high wine, distilled spirits containing a high percentage
      of alcohol; -- usually in the plural.

   to be on a high horse, to be on one's dignity; to bear
      one's self loftily. colloq.

   with a high hand.
      a with power; in force; triumphantly. "the children of
          israel went out with a high hand." --ex. xiv. 8.
      b in an overbearing manner, arbitrarily. "they governed
          the city with a high hand." --jowett thucyd. .

   syn: tall; lofty; elevated; noble; exalted; supercilious;
        proud; violent; full; dear. see tall.
        1913 webster
see also:
higher highest grave low high admiral high altar 
high and dry high and mighty high art high bailiff high church 
low church broad church high constable constable high commission court 
high day high festival high german high dutch german 
high jinks high latitude high life high liver high living 
high mass mass high milling high noon high place 
high priest high relief alto-rilievo high school school 
high seas high steam high steward high tea high tide 
high time high treason treason high water high-water mark 
high-water shrub iva frutescens high wine to be on a high horse with a high hand 
tall 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

high \high\, v. i. see hie.
   to hie. obs.
   1913 webster

         men must high them apace, and make haste. --holland.
   1913 webster
see also:
hie 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

high \high\, v. i.
   to rise; as, the sun higheth. obs.
   1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

high \high\, adv.
   in a high manner; in a high place; to a great altitude; to a
   great degree; largely; in a superior manner; eminently;
   powerfully. "and reasoned high." --milton. "i can not reach
   so high." --shak.
   1913 webster

   note: high is extensively used in the formation of compound
         words, most of which are of very obvious signification;
         as, high-aimed, high-arched, high-aspiring,
         high-bearing, high-boasting, high-browed, high-crested,
         high-crowned, high-designing, high-engendered,
         high-feeding, high-flaming, high-flavored, high-gazing,
         high-heaped, high-heeled, high-priced, high-reared,
         high-resolved, high-rigged, high-seated,
         high-shouldered, high-soaring, high-towering,
         high-voiced, and the like.
         1913 webster

   high and low, everywhere; in all supposable places; as, i
      hunted high and low. colloq.
      1913 webster
see also:
high and low 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

high \high\, n.
   1. an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky;
      heaven.
      1913 webster

   2. people of rank or high station; as, high and low.
      1913 webster

   3. card playing the highest card dealt or drawn.
      1913 webster

   high, low, jack, and the game, a game at cards; -- also
      called all fours, old sledge, and seven up.

   in high and low, utterly; completely; in every respect.
      obs. --chaucer.

   on high, aloft; above.
      1913 webster

            the dayspring from on high hath visited us. --luke
                                                  i. 78.

   the most high, the supreme being; god.
      1913 webster
see also:
high, low, jack, and the game all fours old sledge seven up in high and low on high 
the most high 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

high
     adj 1: greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "a
            high temperature"; "a high price"; "the high point of
            his career"; "high risks"; "has high hopes"; "the
            river is high"; "he has a high opinion of himself"
            ant: low
     2: literal meanings being at or having a relatively great or
        specific elevation or upward extension sometimes used in
        combinations like `knee-high'; "a high mountain"; "high
        ceilings"; "high buildings"; "a high forehead"; "a high
        incline"; "a foot high" ant: low
     3: standing above others in quality or position; "people in
        high places"; "the high priest"; "eminent members of the
        community" syn: eminent
     4: used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency syn:
        high-pitched ant: low
     5: happy and excited and energetic syn: in high spirits
     6: used of the smell of game beginning to taint syn: gamey,
        gamy
     7: slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug
        especially marijuana syn: mellow
     n 1: a lofty level or position or degree; "summer temperatures
          reached an all-time high" ant: low
     2: an air mass of higher than normal pressure; "the east coast
        benefits from a bermuda high" syn: high pressure
     3: a state of sustained elation; "i'm on a permanent high these
        days" ant: low spirits
     4: a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or
        narcotics; "they took drugs to get a high on"
     5: a high place; "they stood on high and observed the
        coutryside"; "he doesn't like heights" syn: heights
     6: a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through
        12; "he goes to the neighborhood highschool" syn: senior
        high school, senior high, highschool, high school
     7: a forward gear with a gear ratio giving high vehicle
        velocity for a given engine speed syn: high gear
     adv 1: at a great altitude; "he climbed high on the ladder" syn: high
            up
     2: in or to a high position, amount, or degree; "prices have
        gone up far too high"
     3: in a rich manner; "he lives high" syn: richly, luxuriously
     4: far up toward the source; "he lives high up the river"
see also:
low eminent high-pitched in high spirits gamey gamy 
mellow high pressure low spirits heights senior high school 
senior high highschool high school high gear high up 
richly luxuriously 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

698 moby thesaurus words for "high":
   dutch courage, gymnasium, hydromatic, latin school, olympian,
   realgymnasium, realschule, a bit much, a high, abandoned, above,
   abovestairs, academy, accented, acme, acute, aerial, afflicted,
   aged, aggrandized, agog, air mass, airward, airy, aloft, aloof,
   altitudinous, alto, alveolar, anticyclone, apex, apical,
   apico-alveolar, apico-dental, apotheosized, aquiver, aristocratic,
   arousal, aroused, articulated, ascending, asking price, aspiring,
   assimilated, atingle, atwitter, august, automatic transmission,
   awesome, back, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, barytone, beaming,
   bearish prices, beatified, befuddlement, bent, besottedness,
   beyond all bounds, bid price, big, bighearted, bilabial, blithe,
   blithesome, blown, boiled, boisterous, bombed, book value, boozy,
   boundless, brackish, bright, bright and sunny, broad,
   bullish prices, bursting, bursting with happiness, cacuminal,
   call price, canned, canonized, capital, carried away, catalepsy,
   central, cerebral, checked, cheerful, cheery, chief, chivalrous,
   close, closing price, cloying, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, cogwheel,
   cold front, cold sector, colossal, coma, consequential,
   considerable, consonant, consonantal, continuant, costly, crocked,
   crocko, cyclone, dear, dear-bought, decline, dental, differential,
   differential gear, dissimilated, distinguished, dominating, dorsal,
   drugged, drunk, drunkenness, ducal, ear-splitting, ebullient,
   ecstatic, effervescent, egregious, elaborate, elate, elated,
   elevated, eminent, emotion, encephalitis lethargica, enchanted,
   ennobled, enormous, enraptured, enravished, enshrined, enthroned,
   entranced, erect, ethereal, eupeptic, euphoric, exaggerated,
   exalted, excellent, excessive, excessively, excited, excitedness,
   excitement, exhilarated, exhilaration, exorbitant, expensive,
   extraordinary, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, exultant, fabulous,
   face value, falsetto, famous, fancy, favorable, fecal, fetid,
   fired, fixed price, flash price, flat, flurry, flushed, flutter,
   foremost, foul, freaked out, freewheel, fried, front, frowsty,
   frowy, frowzy, fuddle, fuddled, fuddledness, fuddlement, fulsome,
   funky, fusty, gamy, gear, gear train, gearbox, gearing, gearshift,
   gearwheel, generous, genial, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike,
   gentlemanly, gigantic, glad, gladsome, glide, glorified, glorious,
   glossal, glottal, glowing, gluttonous, godlike, grammar school,
   grand, grave, graveolent, great, great of heart, greathearted,
   guttural, half-seas over, handsome, hangover, happy, hard, haughty,
   heavy, height, heinous, held in awe, heroic, high and mighty,
   high school, high up, high-class, high-flown, high-frequency,
   high-headed, high-minded, high-nosed, high-pitched,
   high-pressure area, high-priced, high-reaching, high-set,
   high-sounding, high-tasted, high-toned, high-up, highfalutin,
   highfaluting, hilarious, hopeful, hopped up, huge, hyperbolic,
   hypertrophied, icky, idealistic, ill-smelling, illuminated,
   immoderate, immoderately, immortal, immortalized, imparadised,
   impassioned, important, in ecstasies, in good spirits, in heaven,
   in high spirits, in paradise, in raptures, in seventh heaven,
   in the air, in the clouds, incontinent, inebriated, inebriation,
   inebriety, inflamed, inordinate, inordinately, insobriety,
   intemperate, intemperately, intermediate, intermediate school,
   intonated, intoxicated, intoxication, irrepressible, isobar,
   isometric, isometric line, isopiestic line, isotherm,
   isothermal line, issue par, issue price, jubilant, junior high,
   junior high school, katzenjammer, keyed up, kinglike, kingly,
   knightly, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, ladylike, large,
   largehearted, lateral, lathered up, lauded, laughing, lavish, lax,
   leading, lethargy, liberal, lifted, light, lingual, liquid, lit,
   lit up, loaded, lofty, low, low-pressure area, lubricated, lushy,
   luxurious, maggoty, magnanimous, magnificent, magnified, majestic,
   malodorous, manic, manic state, market price, market value,
   mawkish, maximum, mephitic, merry, mezzo-soprano, miasmal, miasmic,
   mid, middle school, mighty, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, momentous,
   monophthongal, monstrous, monumental, morning after, mounting,
   moved, musty, muted, muzzy, narcohypnosis, narcolepsy, narcoma,
   narcosis, narcotic stupor, narcotization, narrow, nasal, nasalized,
   nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, neutral, nidorous, noble,
   noble-minded, nod, noisome, nominal value, not affordable, noxious,
   occluded front, occlusive, odorous, of gentle blood, of good cheer,
   of great cost, of rank, off, offensive, offering price, oiled,
   olid, on cloud nine, on high, on stilts, on the peak, on tiptoe,
   open, openhanded, opening price, optimistic, organized,
   out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, outtopping, over, overbig,
   overdeveloped, overdrive, overgreat, overgrown, overhead,
   overjoyed, overjoyful, overlarge, overlooking, overmuch, overripe,
   overtopping, overweening, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, par,
   par value, parity, patrician, peak, penetrating, pharyngeal,
   pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pickled, pie-eyed,
   piercing, pissed, pissy-eyed, pitch, pitched, plastered, pleasant,
   poisonous, polar front, polluted, possessed, posttonic,
   pot-valiance, pot-valor, potted, premium, prep school,
   preparatory school, price, pricey, princelike, princely, principal,
   prodigal, prodigally, prominent, public school, put price, putrid,
   queenlike, queenly, quite the lady, quotation, quoted price, rack,
   raddled, radiant, raised, rally, rampant, rancid, rank, rapt,
   raptured, rapturous, ravished, ready to burst, reasty, reasy,
   rebarbative, record, reechy, reeking, reeky, renowned, repulsive,
   retroflex, reverse, rhapsodic, riant, rich, ripe, rosy, rotten,
   rounded, roused, sainted, sanctified, sanguine, sanguineous,
   secondary school, sedation, seminary, semivowel, senior high,
   senior high school, sent, serious, settling price, sharp,
   shellacked, shock, shrill, shrined, sickening, skunk-drunk,
   skyward, sleeping sickness, smashed, smellful, smelling, smelly,
   smiling, soaked, soaring, soft, sonant, sopor, soprano, sottedness,
   sour, soured, soused, spaced out, spacy, sparkling, spiring,
   spoiled, squall line, squeaky, squiffy, stale,
   standard transmission, stated value, stationary front, steamed up,
   steep, stenchy, stewed, stick shift, stiff, stilted, stimulated,
   stimulation, stinking, stinko, stirred, stirred up, stoned,
   stopped, straight up, stressed, strident, strong, strong-flavored,
   strong-tasting, stuffy, stupor, sublime, sulfurous, sumptuous,
   sunny, superb, supereminent, superior, superlative, supernal, surd,
   swacked, swings, swoon, sybaritic, syllabic, synchromesh, tainted,
   tall, tanked, tenor, tense, thanatosis, thick, thrilled, throaty,
   throned, tight, tingling, tingly, tipsiness, tipsy, tiptoe, titled,
   to excess, to extremes, to the zenith, tonal, tonic, too much, top,
   topless, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, trance, transmission,
   transported, treble, turbulent, turned, turned on, turned-on,
   twangy, unaccented, unbridled, unconscionable, undue, unpayable,
   unreasonable, unrestrained, unrounded, unstressed, up, upcast,
   upflung, uplifted, upraised, upreared, upright, upstairs, upthrown,
   upward, upwards, velar, vile, violent, vocalic, vocoid, voiced,
   voiceless, vomity, vowel, vowellike, warm front, weak, weather map,
   weevily, weighty, whipped up, wide, wind-shift line, winsome,
   without restraint, worked up, wrought up, yeasty, yucky, zonked

[8] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

high. this word has various significations: 1. principal or chief, as high 
constable, high sheriff. 2. prominent, in a bad sense, as high treason. 3. 
open, not confined, as high seas. 

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