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CLIFF |
Precipice |
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MURAL |
Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep; as, a mural
precipice. |
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PRECIPITOUS |
Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or
mountain. |
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GIDDY |
Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a
giddy precipice. |
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CATARACT |
A great fall of water over a precipice; a large
waterfall. |
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PRECIPITATE |
To throw headlong; to cast down from a precipice or
height. |
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ROLL |
To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a
precipice. |
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TALUS |
A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a
precipice. |
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FUNK |
To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk
at the edge of a precipice. |
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EDGE |
Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme
verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice. |
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CASCADE |
A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook;
a waterfall less than a cataract. |
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AVALANCHE |
A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly
down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice. |
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BROW |
The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the
brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill. |
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TORRENT |
A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream
suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice. |
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RUSH |
To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous
rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a
precipice. |
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SURROUND |
A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by
surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine,
etc. |
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STEEP |
A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any
elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of the horizon;
a precipice. |
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FALL |
Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down
a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the
singular; as, the falls of Niagara. |
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PITCH |
To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or
slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy
sea; the field pitches toward the east. |
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BRINK |
The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a
precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as,
the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. |