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.
Stoop \Stoop\, n. [Cf. Icel. staup a knobby lump.] A post fixed in the earth. [Prov. Eng.]
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.
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.
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.]
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.
When parents can afford to buy toys, their children have little need or interest in building their own soapbox cars or making peach-pit rings by rubbing a pit against a stoop until a hole forms in the middle.
The bodies tumbled onto the stoop when firefighters forced open the door, he said.
His fiendish friends are seen up on the roof of their haunted town house pouring down boiling oil on the carolers gathered on the front stoop.
"You open your mouth and try to help out and see what happens," says one man, sitting on a stoop down the street from where the Hernandez family lives.
Albert's wife, Benita, had a cement stoop built near the tennis courts so her husband could relive his Brooklyn childhood by playing stoop ball, according to the July 1 issue of TV Guide magazine.
Albert's wife, Benita, had a cement stoop built near the tennis courts so her husband could relive his Brooklyn childhood by playing stoop ball, according to the July 1 issue of TV Guide magazine.