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hye

hye is the obsolete spelling of high.

hye is the obsolete spelling of hie.

Meaning of high

Adjective

high (comparative higher, superlative highest)

  1. Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
    • The balloon rose high in the sky. The wall was high. a high mountain
  2. Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
    • She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC
  3. Of a ball, above the batter's shoulders.
    • the pitch (or: the ball) was high
  4. Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions.
  5. Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
    • three feet high three Mount Everests high
  6. Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
    • The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish.

See all 38 meanings of high

Meaning of hie

Verb

hie (third-person singular simple present hies, present participle hying or hieing, simple past and past participle hied)

  1. (intransitive, poetic) To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
    • But after her lover Amyntas hied.1599, “Fair Phyllis”, John Farmer (music)
  2. (poetic, reflexive) To hurry (oneself).
    • My husband hies him home.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  3. (transitive) To urge (a horse) to the left with a cry of "hie".
    Antonyms:
    hup

See all 4 meanings of hie

Forms of hye

Adjective
comparativehyer
superlativehyest
Verb
third-person singular presenthyes
present participlehying
present participlehyeing
past participlehyed
pasthyed

Questions about hye

What is hye the obsolete spelling of?
Hye is the obsolete spelling of high.

Words near hye in the dictionary

  1. hydrœcia
  2. hydrœcium
  3. hydt
  4. hydts
  5. hydyne
  6. hye
  7. hyed
  8. hyeing
  9. hyellazole
  10. hyem
  11. hyemal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hye (page history and authors); high (page history and authors); hie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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