Upon thehighest spray of every mounting pole, Those Quirristers are pearcht with many a speckled breast.
1930, Philip Sidney Smith,Mineral Industry of Alaska in 1928 and Administration Report:
The Chitistone River Valley offers a more direct route for travel from McCarthy to the White River and the Shushana gold placers than Skolai Creek, but it involves ahigh climb over the so-called “goat trail” to avoid the canyon above Chitistone[.]
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering athigh altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
She was like a BeardsleySalome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and thehigh cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.
1919, Martha Van Rensselaer, Flora Rose, Helen Canon,A Manual of Home-Making, page376:
A nightgown with ahigh neck and long sleeves may have the fullness set into a yoke.
(baseball, of a ball) Above the batter's shoulders.
the pitch (or: the ball) washigh
Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a greater elevation, for example moremountainous, than other regions.
I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truckhigh; I never see anybody so polite.
1591,Henry Barrow,A Plaine Refutation of M. G. Giffardes reprochful booke[…][1], page33:
Furder, what wil you answeare for your keping a daye, cessation &c to St. Michael & al Angells? how wil you excuse your self of mosthigh idolatrie, advancing your self in thinges you neuer sawe, rashlie puffed vp of your fleshlie minde, and not holding the heade, depriuing others of their Crowne?
1858, Joseph Howe,Speeches and Public Letters, page346:
The letter of a "Pioneer" was sent to the Chronicle office by a very respectable man, of ahigh conservative family, but whose interests have been injuriously affected by the constant fluctuations in the commercial policy of England.
His family was ardently royalist, and might be compared to ahigh Tory family on this side the water; with some change of conditions, their prejudices and disposition of the mind were the same.
2005, Jesse D. Geller, John C. Norcross, David E. Orlinsky,The Psychotherapist's Own Psychotherapy, Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page69:
My father was the youngest son of aHigh-Church andhigh Tory family, the politically leftwing and religiously Nonconformist rebel; and antiimperialist who nearly lost his position in the City by refusing to sign his firm's pro–Boer War petition.
Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
inhigh spirits
1970,Grateful Dead,High Time, on the albumWorkingman's Dead
2010, Rose Maria McCarthy Anding.,High Heels, Honey Lips, & White Powder:
I was living thehigh lifestyle in famous sex clubs, relaxing on luxurious sofas, in the saunas and whirlpools, enjoying moments of excitement with my male and female companions while sipping champagne from crystal glasses.
The sea is ashigh as ever. I shouldn't think any boat could put out today.
Remote (to the north or south) from theequator; situated at (or constituting) a latitude which is expressed by a large number.
high latitude,fish species inhigh arctic and antarctic areas
1966,Symposium on Antarctic Oceanography: Papers, page242:
But other euphausiids,Euphausia crystallorophias, are found in the pack ice region of thehigh Antarctic as food of Blue and Minke Whales (Marr, 1956).E. vallentini is very important in the lower Antarctic region, around[…]
1990, International Union of Game Biologists,Transactions, the XIXth IUGB Congress: Population dynamics, Congress, page219:
We predict thatL. arctica will coincide with the whole reindeer-caribou distribution, probably excepted Svalbard, South Georgia and otherhigh-polar areas.
1999, Peter John Hodum,Foraging Ecology and Reproductive Energetics of Antarctic Fulmarine Petrels, page 8:
[…] petrels, which breed primarily in thehigh Antarctic, the Rauer Islands are fairly central in their breeding distribution. This study documents the breeding biology of these four species of fulmarine petrels on Hop Island, Rauer Islands during […]
2004,Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung, volumes481-483, page 1:
Except for some lithodid crabs that have recently been found in the Antarctic Bellingshausen Sea (Klages et al., 1995; Arana and Retamal, 2000), reptants are not known fromhigh polar areas, where water temperature at the seafloor drops permanently below about 0°C.
This study also analyzed the sources of variations over an environmental gradient extending from low (subtropical) tohigh (sub-Antarctic) latitudes.
Large,great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
My bank charges me ahigh interest rate.
I was running ahigh temperature and hadhigh cholesterol.
high voltage high prices high winds ahigh number
1697,Virgil, “The First Book of theÆneis”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…], London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC:
Can heavenly minds suchhigh resentment show?
2005, Tracy Martin,How To Diagnose and Repair Automotive Electrical Systems[2], page16:
Ignition voltage needs to be high enough to overcome thehigh resistance created by the air gap.
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also havehigh spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
2020 September 14, Richard H. Pildes, “The three words that can avert an election nightmare”, inCNN[3]:
Studies also show that absentee ballots cast by voters who are younger or from racial and ethnic minority groups are rejected athigher rates than other absentee ballots.
Having a large or comparatively largerconcentration of (asubstance,which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
Carrots arehigh invitamin A. made from ahigh-copper alloy
1907,The American Exporter, volume60, page101:
Anyone can determine for himself whether certain wire ishigh carbon or not. Heat a piece of the wire red hot and while red plunge into water till cold.
I have KT742 of the same suit. In other words, a K-high flush.
9-high straight = 98765 unsuited
Royal Flush = AKQJT suited = A-high straight flush
(of a card or hand) Winning; able to take atrick, win a round, etc.
North's hand washigh. East was in trouble.
1894,Harper's Magazine, volume88, page910:
Cutler pushed forward the two necessary white chips. No one's hand washigh, and Loomis made a slight winning.
(of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
Epicures do not cook game before it ishigh.
The tailor liked his meathigh.
1991, Stephen King,Needful Things:
What he did know was this: something about the situation smelled wrong. Something about it smelled ashigh as dead fish that have spent three days in the hot sun.
"Three extremelyhigh people showing up at the animal shelter like WE FOUND A DOG would be really funny, but..."
(nautical, of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the)wind.
1784, William Falconer,An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Or, A Copious Explanation:
NO NEARER! (arrive! Fr.) the command given by the pilot of quarter-master, to the helmsman, to steer the ship nohigher to the direction of the wind than the sails will operate to advance the ship in her course.
(sports such as soccer) Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
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(countable) A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven) or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous,maximum, etc).
They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilaratinghigh.
That pill gave me ahigh for a few hours, before I had acomedown.
No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legalhighs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
1932,Grace Livingston Hill, chapter 6, inThe Patch of Blue, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp Clark Company, Limited, published in the 20th century,→OCLC,page128:
He’s the old man’s only son. Some baby! Yep, right behind ya. Nope, he donno me. I was in Grammar when he was inHigh.
1998, Kristen N Maloney, “Over the Edge”, inVolume 1: Forsaken, Bloomington, Ind.: Booktango,→ISBN:
The high school experience is one unmatched and irreplaceable. Its effects on our lives continue long after walking through ourhigh’s doorways one last time.
1999 July 1, Alan Diaz, “Mom accused of making threats”, inSun Sentinel, Palm Beach edition, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,→ISSN,→OCLC,page 4B, column 4:
The reassignment follows a dispute between her and an association of parents of NovaHigh’s band members over how the band program was being run.
[…] 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman DouglasHigh in February,[…] FreemanHigh upgraded its cameras to high definition after last year’s shooting.[…] By this spring, HuffmanHigh in Birmingham, Ala., had, in security parlance, been “hardened,”[…] At Florida’s ForestHigh in April, for example, teachers and teens who had undergone safety training locked classroom doors[…] A month later, at DixonHigh in Illinois, resource officer Mark Dallas heard shots near the school gym,[…]
