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Steep   /stip/   Listen
adjective
Steep  adj.  Bright; glittering; fiery. (Obs.) "His eyen steep, and rolling in his head."


Steep  adj.  (compar. steeper; superl. steepest)  
1.
Making a large angle with the plane of the horizon; ascending or descending rapidly with respect to a horizontal line or a level; precipitous; as, a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep declivity; a steep barometric gradient.
2.
Difficult of access; not easily reached; lofty; elevated; high. (Obs.)
3.
Excessive; as, a steep price. (Slang)


noun
Steep  n.  
1.
Something steeped, or used in steeping; a fertilizing liquid to hasten the germination of seeds.
2.
A rennet bag. (Prov. Eng.)


Steep  n.  A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice. "We had on each side naked rocks and mountains broken into a thousand irregular steeps and precipices." "Bare steeps, where desolation stalks."


verb
Steep  v. t.  (past & past part. steeped; pres. part. steeping)  To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often used figuratively. "Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep." "In refreshing dew to steep The little, trembling flowers." "The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin."


Steep  v. i.  To undergo the process of soaking in a liquid; as, the tea is steeping. (Colloq.)





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"Steep" Quotes from Famous Books



... afternoon that I reached Belleville, the reputed storm-centre. I had been warned that it would be dangerous to venture into that district in the handsome carriage provided for me by my friend. Yet when I climbed the steep hill leading to the polling station where the Maire presided, I found everything perfectly quiet. On entering the ballot-room, however, I was received in a somewhat curious fashion by the Maire. "So you have come at last to poor calumniated Belleville," he said. "You are the first journalist ...
— Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 • Stuart J. Reid, ed.
... the palace, a beautiful building dating from the late Renaissance. Owing to the topography of the region and the general decadence peculiar to all Etruria, the country about Nepi is forbidding and melancholy. The dark and rugged chasms, with their huge blocks of stone and steep walls of black and dark red tuff, with rushing torrents in their depths, cause an impression of grandeur, but also of sadness, with which the broad and peaceful highlands and the idyllic pastures, where one constantly hears the melancholy bleating of ...
— Lucretia Borgia - According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day • Ferdinand Gregorovius
... The steep descent of Hay Hill was so called from a farm in the neighbourhood, which, perhaps, took its name from Tyburn (the "Ayburn," the "Eia Burn"), which flowed at the foot. Here in 1554 Sir Thomas Wyatt's head was exposed, and three of his companions ...
— Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater - The Fascination of London • Geraldine Edith Mitton
... chose for himself a steep place about ten yards below me, and after sticking his pole in the mud, like a lazy fellow, as he is, amused himself by counting the stamens in some sorrel-flowers that grew thick thereabouts. I listened ...
— Forest & Frontiers • G. A. Henty
... Oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed Priest from the ...
— On the Art of Writing - Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 • Arthur Quiller-Couch


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