Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Behight \Be*hight"\, v. t. [imp. {Behight}; p. p. {Behight},
   {Behoten}.] [OE. bihaten, AS. beh[=a]tan to vow, promise;
   pref. be- + h[=a]tan to call, command. See {Hight}, v.] [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.