Definition of stoop

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Stoop (v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.

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Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection..
Stooping :: Stooper (n.) One who stoops.
Round-shouldered :: Round-shouldered (a.) Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
Cheese :: Cheese (n.) A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
Astoop :: Astoop (adv.) In a stooping or inclined position.
Stooped :: Stoop (n.) A post fixed in the earth.
Lout :: Lout (v. i.) To bend; to box; to stoop.
Stooping :: Stooped (imp. & p. p.) of Stoo.
Canceleer :: Canceleer (n.) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop..
Stoop :: Stoop (n.) Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation..
Stoor :: Stooping () a. & n. from Stoop.
Vouchsafe :: Vouchsafe (v. i.) To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop.
Bait :: Bait (v. i.) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey..
Couch :: Couch (v. i.) To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch..
Stoop :: Stooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stoo.
Stoop :: Stoop (n.) 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..
Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) 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.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To degrade.
Crouch :: Crouch (v. i.) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
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