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 ]