a. [f. CLIFF + -Y.] Having cliffs, precipitous, craggy.

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1538.  Leland, Itin., IV. 49. The Shore is cliffy.

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1598.  Drayton, Heroic. Ep. (1748), 122. Calais … In kenning of the cliffy Dover stands.

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1635.  Pagitt, Christianogr., I. (1646), 9. The Sea coasts being generally cliffie and inaccessible.

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1708.  J. Philips, Cyder, I. 105. Ev’n on the cliffy height of Penmenmaur.

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1860.  Tyndall, Glac., I. § 9. 61. A mountain basin, which was bounded all round by a grand and cliffy rim.

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