[f. CLIFT sb.2 + -Y.] = CLIFFY.

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1589.  Fleming, Virg. Georg., I. 5. From lofty brow Of steepe and cliftie passages [cleere] water [gliding downe].

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1632.  Lithgow, Trav., vii. 332. In a clifty Creeke close by the sea side.

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1769.  Pennant, Tour Scot. (1771), 66 (L.). The rocks below widen considerably, and their clifty sides are fringed with wood.

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1887.  ‘C. E. Craddock’ (Miss Murfree), in Harper’s Mag., Dec., 56/1. The vagrant winds were abroad, rioting among the clifty heights where they held their tryst.

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