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STOOP,

1. To bend the body downward and forward as, to stoop to pick up a book.

2. To bend or lean forward to incline forward in standing or walking. We often see men stoop in standing or walking, either from habit or from age.

3. To yield to submit to bend by compulsion as, Carthage at length stooped to Rome.

4. To descend from rank or dignity to condescend. IN modern days, attention to agriculture is not called stooping in men of property.

Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.

5. To yield to be inferior.

These are arts, my prince, in which our Zama does not stoop to Rome.

6. To come down on prey, as a hawk.

The bird of Jove stoopd from his airy tour, two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

7. To alight from the wing.

And stoop with closing pinions from above.

8. To sink to a lower place.

Cowering low with blandishments, each bird stoopd on his wing.

STOOP,

1. To cause to incline downward to sink as, to stoop a cask of liquor.

2. To cause to submit. Little used.

STOOP, n.

1. The act of bending the body forward inclination forward.

2. Descent from dignity or superiority condescension.

Can any loyal subject see with patience such a stoop from sovereignty?

3. Fall of a bird on his prey.

4. In America, a kind of shed, generally open, but attached to a house also, an open place for seats at a door.

STOOP, n.

1. A vessel of liquor as a stoop of wine or ale.

2. A post fixed in the earth. Local.