Be*hight" (&?;), v. t. [imp. Behight; p. p. Behight, Behoten.] [OE. bihaten, AS. behātan to vow, promise; pref. be- + hātan to call, command. See Hight, v.] [Obs. in all its senses.] 1. To promise; to vow.

Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve.
Surrey.

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

The keys are to thy hand behight.
Spenser.

3. To adjudge; to assign by authority.

The second was to Triamond behight.
Spenser.

4. To mean, or intend.

More than heart behighteth.
Mir. for Mag.

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

All the lookers-on him dead behight.
Spenser.

6. To call; to name; to address.

Whom . . . he knew and thus behight.
Spenser.

7. To command; to order.

He behight those gates to be unbarred.
Spenser.

Be*hight", n. A vow; a promise. [Obs.] Surrey.