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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hight \Hight\, v. t. & i. [imp. {Hight}, {Hot}, p. p. {Hight}, {Hote} ([?]), {Hoten} ([?]). See {Hote}.] [OE. heiten, highten, haten, hoten; also hight, hatte, hette, is called, was called, AS. h[amac]tan to call, name, be called, to command, promise; also h[amac]tte is called, was called; akin to G. heissen to call, be called, bid, Goth. haitan to call, in the passive, to be called.] 1. To be called or named. [Archaic & Poetic.] Note: In the form hight, it is used in a passive sense as a present, meaning is called or named, also as a preterite, was called or named. This form has also been used as a past participle. See {Hote}. The great poet of Italy, That highte Dante. --Chaucer. Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight. --Surrey. Entered then into the church the Reverend Teacher. Father he hight, and he was, in the parish. --Longfellow. Childe Harold was he hight. --Byron. 2. To command; to direct; to impel. [Obs.] But the sad steel seized not where it was hight Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall. --Spenser. 3. To commit; to intrust. [Obs.] Yet charge of them was to a porter hight. --Spenser. 4. To promise. [Obs.] He had hold his day, as he had hight. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hot \Hot\, imp. & p. p. of {Hote}. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hot \Hot\, a. [Compar. {Hotter}; superl. {Hottest}.] [OE. hot, hat, AS. h[be]t; akin to OS. h[c7]t, D. heet, OHG. heiz, G. heiss, Icel. heitr, Sw. het, Dan. heed, hed; cf. Goth. heit[d3] fever, hais torch. Cf. {Heat}.] 1. Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air. [bd]A hotvenison pasty.[b8] --Shak. 2. Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager. Achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful. --Dryden. There was mouthing in hot haste. --Byron. 3. Lustful; lewd; lecherous. --Shak. 4. Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard. {Hot bed} (Iron Manuf.), an iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool. {Hot wall} (Gardening), a wall provided with flues for the conducting of heat, to hasten the growth of fruit trees or the ripening of fruit. {Hot well} (Condensing Engines), a receptacle for the hot water drawn from the condenser by the air pump. This water is returned to the boiler, being drawn from the hot well by the feed pump. {In hot water} (Fig.), in trouble; in difficulties. [Colloq.] Syn: Burning; fiery; fervid; glowing; eager; animated; brisk; vehement; precipitate; violent; furious; ardent; fervent; impetuous; irascible; passionate; hasty; excitable.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hote \Hote\, v. t. & i. [pres. & imp. {Hatte}, {Hot}, etc.; p. p. {Hote}, {Hoten}, {Hot}, etc. See {Hight}, {Hete}.] 1. To command; to enjoin. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. 2. To promise. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 3. To be called; to be named. [Obs.] There as I was wont to hote Arcite, Now hight I Philostrate, not worth a mite. --Chaucer.