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Definition of Stoop
| n. | 1. | (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. | | 1. | A vessel of liquor; a flagon. | | 1. | A post fixed in the earth. | | v. i. | 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. | | 2. | To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection. | | 3. | To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend. | | 4. | To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop. | | 5. | To sink when on the wing; to alight. | | v. t. | 1. | To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body. | | 2. | To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor. | | 3. | To cause to submit; to prostrate. | | 4. | To degrade. | | n. | 1. | The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders. | | 2. | Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation. | | 3. | The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop. |
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