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Bright; glittering; fiery. [Obs.] His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.

Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. [R.] Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.

Lofty and precipitous. [R.] Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill. Shak.

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.

A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.

Steepness. Howell.

Somewhat steep. Carlyle.

er; 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 (Bot.), a low shrub (Spiræa tomentosa) having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers; hardhack. -- Steeple chase, a race across country between a n…

Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building.

The act of riding steeple chases.

Furnished with, or having the form of, a steeple; adorned with steeples. Fairfax.

In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.

Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof.

Steep; precipitous. [Poetic] No more, my goats, shall I belong you climb The steepy cliffs, or crop the flow'ry thyme. Dryden.

Very steep. [Obs.] Florio.

To steep or soak; to drench. [R.] "In gore he lay insteeped." Shak.

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.

with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off. The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar. Beattie.

To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum. Ure.