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On high
(gcide) | High \High\, n.
1. An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky;
heaven.
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2. People of rank or high station; as, high and low.
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3. (Card Playing) The highest card dealt or drawn.
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High, low, jack, and the game, a game at cards; -- also
called all fours, old sledge, and seven up.
In high and low, utterly; completely; in every respect.
[Obs.] --Chaucer.
On high, aloft; above.
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The dayspring from on high hath visited us. --Luke
i. 78.
The Most High, the Supreme Being; God.
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information highway
(foldoc) | information superhighway
information highway
superhighway
(Or "Infobahn", "Info Strada") The name
coined by US Vice-president Al Gore in the early 1990s for the
emerging high-speed global communications network capable of
carrying voice, data, video, and other services around the
world. These services use satellite, copper cable, {optical
fibre}, mobile telecommunications, and are accessible via
set-top boxes or suitably equipped computers.
See also National Information Infrastructure.
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COMMON HIGHWA
(bouvier) | COMMON HIGHWAY. By this term is meant a road to be used by the community at
large for any purpose of transit or traffic. Hamm. N. P. 239. See Highway.
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