HIGH FLOOD. See [Flood].
HIGH LATITUDES. Those regions far removed from the equator towards the poles of the earth above the 50th degree.
HIGH TIDE, or High Water. Figuratively, a full purse. Constance, in Shakspeare's King John, uses the term high tides as denoting the gold-letter days or holidays of the calendar.
HIGH-WATER. The greatest height of the flood-tide. (See [Tide].)
HIGH-WATER MARK. The line made by the water upon the shore, when at its greatest height; it is also designated the flood-mark and spring-tide mark. This constitutes the boundary line of admiralty jurisdiction as to the soil.
HIGH WIND. See [Heavy Gale].
HIGRE. See [Bore] and [Eagre].
HIKE. A brief equivalent to "Be off," "Go away." It is generally used in a contemptuous sense; as, he was "hiked off"—that is, dismissed at once, or in a hurry. To swing.
HIKE UP, To. To kidnap; to carry off by force.
HILL. In use with the Anglo-Saxons. An insulated rise of the ground, usually applied to heights below 1000 feet, yet higher than a [hillock] or [hummock] (which see).