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Stoop

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. (Arch.) [U. S.]

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Stooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stooping

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.
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, . . . Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.
— Dryden.

These are arts, my prince, In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome.
— Addison.
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.
— Bacon.
To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
The bird of Jove, stooped from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
— Milton.
To sink when on the wing; to alight.
And stoop with closing pinions from above.
— Dryden.

Cowering low With blandishment, each bird stooped on his wing.
— Milton.

v. t.

To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
To cause to submit; to prostrate. [Obs.]
Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears Are stooped by death; and many left alive.
— Chapman.
To degrade. [Obs.]

The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
Can any loyal subject see With patience such a stoop from sovereignty?
— Dryden.
The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.