Be·hight v. t. [imp. Behight; p. p. Behight, Behoten.]  [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.