Definition of "hyghe" [hyghe]

• An obsolete variant of hie. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Great Regulars: The alliterative form is remarkably flexible across a range of tones and subjects, but my favourite passages have always been the evocations of bleak northern weather and terrain that permeate the poem: "The werbelande wynde wapped fro the hyghe/And drof uch dale ful of dryftes ful grete" adapted by Simon Armitage as "then a whip-cracking wind comes whistling between hills/Driving snow into deepening drifts in the dales"."
• "And every gerner hathe a zate, for to entre with inne, a lytille hyghe fro the erthe."
• "In this contree ben righte hyghe hilles, toward the ende of Macedonye."