Having an almost perpendicular slope; precipitous; sheer.
Elevated; high; lofty.
Excessive; difficult; forbidding: as, a steep undertaking; a steep price.
Bright; glittering; fiery.
noun.
A steep or precipitous place; an abrupt ascent or descent; a precipice.
To tilt (a barrel).
To soak in a liquid; macerate: as, to steep barley; to steep herbs.
To bathe with a liquid; wet; moisten.
To imbue or impregnate as with a specified influence; cause to become permeated or pervaded (with): followed by in.
To be bathed in a liquid; soak.
noun.
The process of steeping; the state of being steeped, soaked, or permeated: used chiefly in the phrase in steep.
noun.
That in which anything is steeped; specifically, a fertilizing liquid in which seeds are soaked to quicken germination.
noun.
Rennet: so called from being steeped before it is used.
noun.
Same as brasque.
noun.
plural The solutions or baths in which metals are dipped preparatory to electro-plating.