[f. STEEP a. + -LY2.] In a steep manner.

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1772.  Pennant, Tours Scot. (1774), 328. An amazing mountain steeply sloping.

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1816.  Byron, Ch. Har., III. lv. 2. Many a rock which steeply lowers.

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1860.  H. F. Tozer, in Galton, Vac. Tourists (1861), 407. We … after ascending steeply through a fine gorge, found ourselves in a green upland valley.

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  b.  quasi-Comb. with adj. or ppl. adj.

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1793.  Anna Seward, Lett. (1811), III. 261. That steeply-sloping field at Eyam.

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1905.  W. J. Sollas, Age of Earth, x. 296. The Carboniferous beds … in the steeply-folded form they now present.

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1912.  Keith, Human Body, xiv. 221. Hence the races with short feet, high insteps and steeply set heels, have large calves.

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