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Word Meanings - DOWNSTEEPY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Very steep. Florio.

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  • STEEP
    Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.
  • STEEPLE
    A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles
  • STEEPLY
    In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
  • STEEP-DOWN
    Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.
  • STEEPLE-CROWNED
    1. Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building. 2. Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown. This grave, beared, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor. Hawthorne.
  • STEEPEN
    To become steep or steeper. As the way steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. H. Miller.
  • STEEPER
    A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.
  • STEEPNESS
    1. Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof. 2. Height; loftiness. Chapman.
  • STEEPINESS
    Steepness. Howell.
  • STEEPY
    Steep; precipitous. No more, my goats, shall I belong you climb The steepy cliffs, or crop the flow'ry thyme. Dryden.
  • STEEP-UP
    Lofty and precipitous. Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill. Shak.
  • STEEPLECHASING
    The act of riding steeple chases.
  • STEEPISH
    Somewhat steep. Carlyle.
  • STEEPLED
    Furnished with, or having the form of, a steeple; adorned with steeples. Fairfax.
  • DOWNSTEEPY
    Very steep. Florio.
  • INSTEEP
    To steep or soak; to drench. "In gore he lay insteeped." Shak.

 

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