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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
bluff, cliff, crag, crest, escarpment, face, hilltop, knoll, lofty peak, mountaintop, palisade, palisades, peak, pic, pico, pike, pinnacle, point, scar, scarp, spur, steep, summit, tor, wall
Dictionary Results for precipice:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
precipice
    n 1: a very steep cliff
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Precipice \Prec"i*pice\, n. [F. pr['e]cipice, L. praecipitium,
   fr. praeceps, -cipitis, headlong; prae before + caput,
   capitis, the head. See Pre-, and Chief.]
   1. A sudden or headlong fall. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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   2. A headlong steep; a very steep, perpendicular, or
      overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff.
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            Where wealth like fruit on precipices grew.
                                                  --Dryden.
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