adv. [ Pref. a- + stoop. ] In a stooping or inclined position. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ An onomatopœia. ] The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle. “The cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle.” Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.
Syn. -- boastful, braggart(prenominal), bragging(prenominal), braggy, big, crowing, self-aggrandizing, vainglorious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. AS. cypa a measure, D. kuip tub, Icel. kupa bowl, G. kufe coop tub; all fr. L. cupa vat, tub, LL. cupa, copa, cup. See Cup, and cf. Keeve. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A barrel or cask for liquor. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel. [ Scotch ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cooped p. pr. & vb. n. Cooping. ] To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Trojans cooped within their walls so long. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The contempt of all other knowledge . . . coops the understanding up within narrow bounds. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To work upon in the manner of a cooper. [ Obs. ] “Shaken tubs . . . be new cooped.” Holland.

Syn. -- To crowd; confine; imprison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Coupe. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Coop. ] One who makes barrels, hogsheads, casks, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Coopered p. pr. & vb. n. Coopering. ] To do the work of a cooper upon; as, to cooper a cask or barrel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Work done by a cooper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The price paid for coopers' work. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A place where coopers' work is done. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. coopérant. ] Operating together; as, cooperant forces. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Cooperated; p. pr. & vb. n. Cooperating. ] [ L. cooperatus, p. p. of cooperari to cooperate; co + operari to work, opus work. See Operate. ] To act or operate jointly with another or others; to concur in action, effort, or effect. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whate'er cooperates to the common mirth. Crashaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cooperatio: cf. F. coopération. ] 1. The act of cooperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not holpen by the cooperation of angels. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Polit. Econ.) The association of a number of persons for their benefit. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Operating jointly to the same end. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cooperative society, a society established on the principle of a joint-stock association, for the production of commodities, or their purchase and distribution for consumption, or for the borrowing and lending of capital among its members. --
Cooperative store, a store established by a cooperative society, where the members make their purchases and share in the profits or losses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L.: cf. F. coopérateur. ] One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end. “Cooperators with the truth.” Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The occupation of a cooper. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to a cooper; coopered. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Coopery vessels made of wood. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Cooptate. Cf. F. coopter. ] To choose or elect in concert with another. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Each of the hundred was to coopt three others. Jowett (Thucyd.). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To choose or elect as a colleague or fellow member of a group; as, The church members co-opted individuals from similar backgrounds to replenish the congregation. [ PJC + WordNet 1.5 ]

3. To assimilate (a smaller group) into a larger group. [ PJC ]

4. To persuade an opponent to join one's own side. [ PJC ]

5. To appoint summarily (with or without the appointee's consent). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

6. To appropriate (something rightly belonging to another) as one's own; to preempt; as, to co-opt someone's name. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ L. cooptatus, p. p. of cootare to elect to something; co- + optare to choose. ] To choose; to elect; to coopt. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cooptatio. ] The act of choosing; selection; choice. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The first election and cooptation of a friend. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the selection of a new member (usually by a vote of the existing membership). See co-opt{ 2 }.
Syn. -- co-option. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. the act of appointing summarily (with or without the appointee's consent).
Syn. -- co-option. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Arum (Arum maculatum); the European wake-robin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a common European arum (Arum maculatum) with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; it emerges in early spring, and is the source of a sagolike starch called arum.
Syn. -- cuckoopint, lords and ladies, lords-and-ladies, jack-in-the-pulpit, Arum maculatum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Drooped p. pr. & vb. n. Drooping. ] [ Icel. drūpa; akin to E. drop. See Drop. ] 1. To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like. “The purple flowers droop.” “Above her drooped a lamp.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. “Then day drooped.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To let droop or sink. [ R. ] M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like to a withered vine
That droops his sapless branches to the ground. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A drooping; as, a droop of the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, droops. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a drooping manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. bending downward due to lack of tautness; -- of lines.
Syn. -- drooping, sagging, slack. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. 'epi` upon + &unr_; egg + fe`rein to bear. ] (Anat.) See Parovarium.

n. (Zool.) See Grouper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A coop or cage for hens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hope; akin to D. hoep, hoepel. ] 1. A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks. [ Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bulge hoop,
Chine hoop,
Quarter hoop, the hoop nearest the middle of a cask, that nearest the end, and the intermediate hoop between these two, respectively. --
Flat hoop, a wooden hoop dressed flat on both sides. --
Half-round hoop, a wooden hoop left rounding and undressed on the outside. --
Hoop iron, iron in thin narrow strips, used for making hoops. --
Hoop lock, the fastening for uniting the ends of wooden hoops by notching and interlocking them. --
Hoop skirt, a framework of hoops for expanding the skirts of a woman's dress; -- called also hoop petticoat. --
Hoop snake (Zool.), a harmless snake of the Southern United States (Abaster erythrogrammus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it curves itself into a hoop, taking its tail into its mouth, and rolls along with great velocity. --
Hoop tree (Bot.), a small West Indian tree (Melia sempervirens), of the Mahogany family. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hooped p. pr. & vb. n. Hooping. ] 1. To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To clasp; to encircle; to surround. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ OE. houpen; cf. F. houper to hoop, to shout; -- a hunting term, prob. fr. houp, an interj. used in calling. Cf. Whoop. ] 1. To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. [ Usually written whoop. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hooping cough. (Med.) See Whooping cough. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Written also whoop. ] 1. To drive or follow with a shout. “To be hooped out of Rome.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To call by a shout or peculiar cry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The hoopoe. See Hoopoe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 1st Hoop. ] One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) [ So called from its note. ] The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk.

{ , n. [ So called from its cry; cf. L. upupa, Gr. &unr_;, D. hop, F. huppe; cf. also G. wiedenhopf, OHG. wituhopfo, lit., wood hopper. ] (Zool.) A European bird of the genus Upupa (Upupa epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure, and a slender down-curving bill. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.

n. The game of basketball. [ Slang ] [ PJC ]

n. a skirt stiffened with hoops.
Syn. -- crinoline. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A basketball player. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

n. 1. (Computers) a series of instructions in a computer program which, when executed, cause a cyclic repetition of the same instructions, with no other action by the program, for as long as the program continues to be executed, or the loop is interrupted by some external action. [ PJC ]

☞ An infinite loop is rarely written intentionally except in cases where the loop is intended merely as a waiting sequence, to be interrupted by some action of the user. It is more commonly the result of a serious logical error on the part of the programmer, resulting in a failure of the program. Its execution can be halted only by halting execution of the program, e.g. by intervention of the operating system or by halting or resetting the computer. In single-user systems, when executing an infinite loop, the computer will appear to halt operation of the program, and the program will be unresponsive to normal keyboard input, though it may be interrupted by an unmasked interrupt. [ PJC ]

v. t. To inclose in a hoop, or as in a hoop. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. liripipion, liripion, LL. liripipium. Said to be corrupted from L. cleri ephippium, lit., the clergy's caparison. ] 1. A pendent part of the old clerical tippet; afterwards, a tippet; a scarf; -- worn also by doctors, learned men, etc. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Acuteness; smartness; also, a smart trick or stratagem. [ Obs. ] Stanihurst. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A silly person. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A liripoop, vel lerripoop, a silly, empty creature; an old dotard. Milles. MS. Devon Gloss. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. luppe an iron lump. Cf. Looping. ] (Iron Works) A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls. [ Written also loup. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Ir. & Gael. lub loop, noose, fold, thong, bend, lub to bend, incline. ] 1. A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight. [ 1913 Webster ]

That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop
To hang a doubt on. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small, narrow opening; a loophole. [ 1913 Webster ]

And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence
The eye of Reason may pry in upon us. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A curve of any kind in the form of a loop. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Telegraphy) A wire forming part of a main circuit and returning to the point from which it starts. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Acoustics) The portion of a vibrating string, air column, etc., between two nodes; -- called also ventral segment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Loop knot, a single knot tied in a doubled cord, etc. so as to leave a loop beyond the knot. See Illust. of Knot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Looped p. pr. & vb. n. Looping. ] To make a loop of or in; to fasten with a loop or loops; -- often with up; as, to loop a string; to loop up a curtain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Bent, folded, or tied, so as to make a loop; as, a looped wire or string. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Full of holes. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]