Height

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.

II. Height ·noun Degree of latitude either north or south.

III. Height ·noun The condition of being high; elevated position.

IV. Height ·noun That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights.

V. Height ·noun Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest.

VI. Height ·noun Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preeminence or distinction in society; prominence.

VII. Height ·noun The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature.