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Webster 1913 Edition
Steepy
Steep′y
(-y̆)
, Adj.
Steep; precipitous.
[Poetic]
No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb
The
The
steepy
cliffs, or crop the flow’ry thyme. Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Steepy
STEEPY
,Adj.
No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb the steepy cliffs.
Definition 2024
steepy
steepy
English
Alternative forms
- steepie (obsolete)
Adjective
steepy (comparative steepier, superlative steepiest)
- (obsolete) Steep.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.137:
- it was such a steepie downe-fall, and by meere strength hewen out of the maine rocke […].
- Dryden
- the steepy crown of the bare mountains
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.137:
Anagrams
- Peteys