heighth

1. (obsolete outside US dialects, now proscribed) Alternative form of height.Examples: "And from hence also shall be the geodesy of the Icosaedrum. For the finding out of the heighth of the pyramis, there is the semidiagony of the side of the decangle and the halfe ray of the circle: But the side of the decangle is a right line subtending the halfe periphery of the side of the quinquangle, or else the greater segment of the ray proportionally cut."; "In the Infancy of the World, Governments began with little Families and Colonies of Men; so that, when ever any Government arrived to greater Heighth than the rest, either by the great Wisdom or Courage of the Government, they afterwards grew a pace..."; "'Why then to me this restless World's but Hell, Till this mishapen trunks aspiring head 'Be circled in a glorious Diadem -- But then 'tis fixt on such an heighth, O!..."alt-ofalternativeproscribed