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

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. stope, Icel. staup; akin to AS. steáp, D. stoop, G. stauf, OHG. stouph. ] A vessel of liquor; a flagon. [ Written also stoup. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Fetch me a stoop of liquor. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Icel. staup a knobby lump. ] A post fixed in the earth. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Stooped p. pr. & vb. n. Stooping. ] [ OE. stoupen; akin to AS. st&unr_;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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, . . .
Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

These are arts, my prince,
In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend. “She stoops to conquer.” Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bird of Jove, stooped from his aery tour,
Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To sink when on the wing; to alight. [ 1913 Webster ]

And stoop with closing pinions from above. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cowering low
With blandishment, each bird stooped on his wing. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To lean; yield; submit; condescend; descend; cower; shrink. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body. “Have stooped my neck.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause to submit; to prostrate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears
Are stooped by death; and many left alive. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To degrade. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can any loyal subject see
With patience such a stoop from sovereignty? Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who stoops. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Stoop. -- Stoop"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]