Word Meanings - CLIFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cliff. That gainst the craggy clifts did loudly roar. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to CLIFT)

• CRAGGY
  Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain. "The craggy ledge." Tennyson.
• LOUDLY
  In a loud manner. Denham.
• CLIFF LIMESTONE
  A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian.
• CLIFF
  A high, steep rock; a precipice. Cliff swallow , a North American swallow , which builds its nest against cliffs; the eaves swallow. (more info) Icel. klif, Dan. & G. klippe, Sw. klippa; perh. orig. a climbing
• CLIFFY
  Having cliffs; broken; craggy.
• GAINSTAND
  To withstand; to resist. Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney.
• GAINSTRIVE
  To strive or struggle against; to withstand. Spenser.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• 'GAINST; GAINST
  A contraction of Against.
• SCRAGGY
  1. Rough with irregular points; scragged. "A scraggy rock." J. Philips. 2. Lean and rough; scragged. "His sinewy, scraggy neck." Sir W. Scott.
• WYCLIFITE; WYCLIFFITE
  A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard.
• UNDERCLIFF
  A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.