Word Meanings - INSTEEP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• STEEPLE
  A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; 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 , a low shrub having dense panicles
• STEEPLY
  In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
• STEEP-DOWN
  Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.
• DRENCHER
  1. One who, or that which, west or steeps. 2. One who administers a drench.
• STEEPLE-CROWNED
  1. Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building. 2. Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown. This grave, beared, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor. Hawthorne.
• STEEPEN
  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.
• STEEPER
  A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.
• DRENCH
  1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink."
• STEEPNESS
  1. Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof. 2. Height; loftiness. Chapman.
• STEEPINESS
  Steepness. Howell.
• STEEP
  Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.
• STEEPY
  Steep; precipitous. No more, my goats, shall I belong you climb The steepy cliffs, or crop the flow'ry thyme. Dryden.
• DRENCHE
  To drown. In the sea he drenched. Chaucer.
• STEEP-UP
  Lofty and precipitous. Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill. Shak.
• STEEPLECHASING
  The act of riding steeple chases.
• INSTEEP
  To steep or soak; to drench. "In gore he lay insteeped." Shak.
• STEEPISH
  Somewhat steep. Carlyle.
• STEEPLED
  Furnished with, or having the form of, a steeple; adorned with steeples. Fairfax.
• INDRENCH
  To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown. Shak.
• HORSE-DRENCH
  1. A dose of physic for a horse. Shak. 2. The appliance by which the dose is administred.
• BEDRENCH
  To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak. Shak.
• DOWNSTEEPY
  Very steep. Florio.