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aqueous deposit. Dana. Aqueous extract, an extract obtained from a vegetable substance by steeping it in water. -- Aqueous humor (Anat.), one the humors of the eye; a limpid fluid, occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.) -- Aqueous rocks (Geol.), those which are deposited from water…

Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb. Those arduous pats they trod. Pope.

A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.

ee Bark stove (below). -- Bark pit, a pit filled with bark and water, in which hides are steeped in tanning. -- Bark stove (Hort.), a glazed structure for keeping tropical plants, having a bed of tanner's bark (called a bark bed) or other fermentable matter which produces a moist heat.

To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.

A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.

Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front. "A bluff or bold shore." Falconer. Its banks, if not really steep, had a bluff and precipitous aspect. Judd.

Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks.

To steep or soak in warm water. [Obs.] To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense can not inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner. Bacon. To boil down, to reduce in bulk by boiling; as, to boil down sap or sirup.

Steep; abrupt; prominent. Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears. Trumbull.

Steep. [Prov. Eng.]

, or other suitable substance. It is used for lining hearths, crucibles, etc. Called also steep.

A steep place endangering the neck.

Steep; high. [Obs.] Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them. Ascham.

To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation. "She brews good ale." Shak.

To steep or saturate in brine.

The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. "The brink of vice." Bp. Porteus. "The brink of ruin." Burke. The plashy brink of weedy lake. Bryant.

The edge or projecting upper aprt of a steep place; as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill. To bend the brow, To knit the brows, to frown; to scowl.

To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.

Furnished with cannon. [Poetic] "Gilbralter's cannoned steep." M. Arnold.