a. arch. [f. STEEP a. + UP adv. Cf. STEEP-DOWN.] Precipitous; perpendicular.

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1565.  Cooper, Thesaurus, s.v. Assurgo, Assurgit clementer & molliter collis, riseth by littel and littell, and is not stipe vp.

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1571.  Digges, Pantom., I. xxv. H j b. If the hill or turret be steepe vp, so that the foote be visible lying perpendicularly vnder the top.

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c. 1600.  Shaks., Sonn., vii. 5. And hauing climb’d the steepe-vp heauenly hill.

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1847.  Tennyson, Princess, Prol. 63. The fountain of the moment, playing, now A … steep-up spout whereon the gilded ball Danced like a wisp. Ibid. (1878), Q. Mary, III. iv. And on the steep-up track of the true faith Your lapses are far seen.

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