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HEIGHT

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Height
  1. The condition of being high; elevated position.

    Behold the height of the stars, how high they are! Job xxii. 12.

  2. The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of an animal, especially of a man; stature.

    Bacon.

    [Goliath's] height was six cubits and a span. 1 Sam. xvii. 4.

  3. Degree of latitude either north or south.

    [Obs.]

    Guinea lieth to the north sea, in the same height as Peru to the south. Abp. Abbot.

  4. That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights.

    Dryden.
  5. Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preëminence or distinction in society; prominence.

    Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. R. Browning.

    All would in his power hold, all make his subjects. Chapman.

  6. Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.

    Social duties are carried to greater heights, and enforced with stronger motives by the principles of our religion. Addison.

  7. Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest.

    My grief was at the height before thou camest. Shak.

    On height, aloud. [Obs.]

    [He] spake these same words, all on hight. Chaucer.

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HEIGHT

HEIGHTEN, verb transitive hitn. To raise higher; but not often used in this literal sense.

1. To advance in progress towards a better state; to improve; to meliorate; to increase in excellence or good qualities; as, to highten virtue; to highten the beauties of description, or of poetry.

2. To aggravate; to advance towards a worse state; to augment in violence.

3. To increase; as, to highten our relish for intellectual pleasure.

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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wrap

WRAP, v.t. pret. and pp. wrapped or wrapt.

1. To wind or fold together. John 20.

2. To involve; to cover by winding something round; often with up; as, to wrap up a child in its blanket; wrap the body well with flannel in winter.

I, wrapt in mist of midnight vapor, glide obscure.

3. To involve; to hide; as truth wrapt in tales.

4. To comprise; to contain.

Leontines young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter.

5. To involve totally.

Things reflected on in gross and transiently, are thought to be wrapped in impenetrable obscurity.

6. To inclose.

7. To snatch up; to transport. This is an error. It ought to be rapt. [See Rap and Rapt.]

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