higher

1. comparativecomparative form of high: more high

1. comparativecomparative form of high: more high

plural highers

1. ScotlandeducationA national school-leaving examination and university entrance qualification.

present singular third person highers · participle present highering · participle past highered · past highered

1. transitiveTo make higher; to raise or increase in amount or quantity.

   It is a fact that other countries have not followed our example, nay, that they have in fact, in some cases, highered the duties upon the admission of our goods. But what has been the result of that policy upon the amount of your exports?

   1847, George Crosby, Crosby's Parliamentary Record

   1 more example

   I am glad also that my hon. friend the Minister of Finance had the firmness to oppose all these influences to make him change his policy, and I hope, for the good of the country and the blessing of the Dominion, that when any change takes place it will be in the direction of lowering rather than of highering the tariff.

   1903, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, Official Report of the Debates, House of Commons

2. intransitiveTo ascend.