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

n. [ Moss + trooper. ] One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; (see Para-) + &unr_; an egg + fe`rein to bear. ] (Anat.) A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Roup. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. troupe, OF. trope, trupe, LL. troppus; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. þorp a hamlet, village, G. dorf a village, dial. G. dorf a meeting. Norw. torp a little farm, a crowd, E. thorp. Cf. Troupe. ] 1. A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

That which should accompany old age --
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends --
I must not look to have. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Soldiers, collectively; an army; -- now generally used in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mil.) Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A company of stageplayers; a troupe. W. Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mil.) A particular roll of the drum; a quick march. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. See Boy scout, above. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Trooped p. pr. & vb. n. Trooping. ] 1. To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops. “Armies . . . troop to their standard.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To march on; to go forward in haste. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor do I, as an enemy to peace,
Troop in the throngs of military men. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. --
To troop the colors or
To troop the colours (Mil.), in the British army, to perform a ceremony consisting essentially in carrying the colors, accompanied by the band and escort, slowly before the troops drawn up in single file and usually in a hollow square, as in London on the sovereign's birthday. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) Any troupial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A state police officer; -- also called state trooper. [ U. S. ] [ PJC ]

3. A mounted policeman. [ Australia ] The black troopers of Queensland are a regiment of aboriginal police, employed chiefly for dispersing wild aborigines who encroach on sheep runs. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. Trouper. [ PJC ]

like a trooper, with energy, endurance, or enthusiasm; as, to work like a trooper.

n. (Zool.) The American scaup duck. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Same as Troupial. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Troop + -meal as in piecemeal. ] By troops; in crowds. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

So, troopmeal, Troy pursued a while, laying on with swords and darts. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport. [ Eng. ] [ 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 ]