1.To promise; to vow. "Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve."
2.To give in trust; to commit; to intrust. "The keys are to thy hand behight."
3.To adjudge; to assign by authority. "The second was to Triamond behight."
4.To mean, or intend. "More than heart behighteth."
5.To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be. "All the lookers-on him dead behight."
6.To call; to name; to address. "Whom... he knew and thus behight."
7.To command; to order. "He behight those gates to be unbarred."
