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Webster 1913 Edition

Stoop

Stoop

,
Noun.
[D.
stoep
.]
(Arch.)
Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
[U. S.]

Stoop

,
Noun.
[OE.
stope
, Icel.
staup
; akin to AS.
steáp
, D.
stoop
, G.
stauf
, OHG.
stouph
.]
A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
[Written also
stoup
.]
Fetch me a
stoop
of liquor.
Shakespeare

Stoop

,
Noun.
[Cf. Icel.
staup
a knobby lump.]
A post fixed in the earth.
[Prov. Eng.]

Stoop

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Stooped
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Stooping
.]
[OE.
stoupen
; akin to AS.
st[GREEK]pian
, OD.
stuypen
, Icel.
stūpa
, Sw.
stupa
to fall, to tilt. Cf 5th
Steep
.]
1.
To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
2.
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, . . .
Yet
stooped
to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.
Dryden.
These are arts, my prince,
In which your Zama does not
stoop
to Rome.
Addison.
3.
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
“She stoops to conquer.”
Goldsmith.
Where men of great wealth
stoop
to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.
Bacon.
4.
To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
The bird of Jove,
stooped
from his aery tour,
Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
Milton.
5.
To sink when on the wing; to alight.
And
stoop
with closing pinions from above.
Dryden.
Cowering low
With blandishment, each bird
stooped
on his wing.
Milton.
Syn. – To lean; yield; submit; condescend; descend; cower; shrink.

Stoop

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To bend forward and downward; to bow down;
as, to
stoop
the body
.
“Have stooped my neck.”
Shak.
2.
To cause to incline downward; to slant;
as, to
stoop
a cask of liquor
.
3.
To cause to submit; to prostrate.
[Obs.]
Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears
Are
stooped
by death; and many left alive.
Chapman.
4.
To degrade.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Stoop

,
Noun.
1.
The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
2.
Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
Can any loyal subject see
With patience such a
stoop
from sovereignty?
Dryden.
3.
The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
L’Estrange.

Webster 1828 Edition

Stoop

STOOP

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To bend the body downward and forward; as, to stoop to pick up a book.
2.
To bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking. We often see men stoop in standing or walking, either from habit or from age.
3.
To yield; to submit; to bend by compulsion; as, Carthage at length stooped to Rome.
4.
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend. IN modern days, attention to agriculture is not called stooping in men of property.
Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.
5.
To yield; to be inferior.
These are arts, my prince, in which our Zama does not stoop to Rome.
6.
To come down on prey, as a hawk.
The bird of Jove stoopd from his airy tour, two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
7.
To alight from the wing.
And stoop with closing pinions from above.
8.
To sink to a lower place.
Cowering low with blandishments, each bird stoopd on his wing.

STOOP

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To cause to incline downward; to sink; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
2.
To cause to submit. [Little used.]

STOOP

,
Noun.
1.
The act of bending the body forward; inclination forward.
2.
Descent from dignity or superiority; condescension.
Can any loyal subject see with patience such a stoop from sovereignty?
3.
Fall of a bird on his prey.
4.
In America, a kind of shed, generally open, but attached to a house; also, an open place for seats at a door.

STOOP

,
Noun.
1.
A vessel of liquor; as a stoop of wine or ale.
2.
A post fixed in the earth. [Local.]

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