“steep、down”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

steep-down

释义

steep-down, a. Obs. exc. poet.
[f. steep a. + down adv. Cf. steep-up.]
Precipitous.
1530Palsgr. 827/1 Stepe downe, tout bas en droycte lygne.1545Elyot Dict., Cliuosus,..pitching doune, or stiepe doune.1560Bible (Geneva) Matt. viii. 32 The whole herd of swine was caryed with violence from a stiepe downe place into the sea.1584–7Greene Carde of Fancie Wks. (Grosart) IV. 74 The cliffes so steep-downe and feareful, as to descend was no lesse daunger then death it selfe.1604Shakes. Oth. v. ii. 280 Whip me ye Diuels..: Wash me in steepe-downe gulfes of Liquid fire.1648J. Beaumont Psyche iii. xiv, You see Him till into the steep-down West He throws his course.1828Tennyson Lover's T. 390 Steep-down walls of battlemented rock.
†b. Of a shower. Obs.
1601W. Watson Import. Consid. (1831) 30 A steep-down shower of stormy sorrows.

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