4 entries under this word
a. [compar. STEEPER; superl. STEEPEST.] [A-S. steáp, O. Fries. stap. Cf. Icel. steypir, a precipice, steypa, to hurl down, disturb.]
To a room they came, Steep and of state. Chapman.
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. “Bare steeps, where desolation stalks.” Wordsworth. We had on each side rocks and mountains broken into a thousand irregular steeps and precipices. Addison.
[imp. & p. p. STEEPED (steept); p. pr. & vb. n. STEEPING.] [D. & Ger. stippen, to steep, dip, Icel. steypa, to overthrow, Sw. stöpa.] To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to imbue; to extract the essence by soaking; to cover completely.
My sense in Lethe steep. Shak.
In refreshing dew to steep The little, trembling flowers. Wordsworth.
n. 1. Something that is steeped, or used in steeping; a fertilizing liquid for hastening the germination of seeds.
Sense 2. A rennet-bag. [Prov. Eng.]