Noun

(en noun)

* 1690 , Nicholas Barbon, A Discourse of Trade [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=87224667&tag=Barbon,+Nicholas,+d.+1698:+A+Discourse+of+Trade,+1690&query=+heighth&id=BarDisc]:

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...

* 1700 , Colley Cibber, Richard III [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=167134294&tag=Cibber,+Colley:+Richard+III,+1700&query=+heighth&id=Cib3Ric]:

'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!...

* 1809 , James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco (London 1809, p. 169)

The heighth of the celestial happiness is to see God (...).

* 1826 , James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=763111755&textreg=1&query=+heighth&id=eaf056v2]

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(US, proscribed)

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Noun

(head)

A general term for a neighborhood or other development built on a hill or mountain.