Stoop \Stoop\, n.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Stoop \Stoop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stooping.]

[OE. stoupen; akin to AS. st?pian, OD. stuypen, Icel. st[=u]pa, 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 a["e]ry 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Stoop \Stoop\, n. [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.]

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Stoop \Stoop\, n. [OE. stope, Icel. staup; akin to AS. ste['a]p, D. stoop, G. stauf, OHG. stouph.]

A vessel of liquor; a flagon. [Written also stoup.]

Fetch me a stoop of liquor. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Stoop \Stoop\, n. [Cf. Icel. staup a knobby lump.]

A post fixed in the earth. [Prov. Eng.]

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Stoop \Stoop\, v. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)