Obs. Forms: 5 behiȝt, 6 -hight, Sc. behicht, -hecht. [f. prec. vb.: cf. the parallel BEHETE, BEHOTE.] A promise.
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 57. After His blessing and silk behiȝt.
c. 1505. Dunbar, None may Assure, xii. Quhais fals behechtis as wind hym wavis.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, II. (1822), 130. I wil nocht dissave the Tarquinis … with vane behichtis.
c. 1547. Earl Surrey, Psalm lxxiii. 25. [Not] In other succour … But only thine, whom I have found in thy behight so just.
