Definition of stoop

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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..

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Round-shouldered :: Round-shouldered (a.) Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.
Vouchsafe :: Vouchsafe (v. i.) To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop.
Couch :: Couch (v. i.) To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch..
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.
Crouch :: Crouch (v. i.) To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear..
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor..
Squat :: Squat (v. t.) To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit..
Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
Stooped :: Stoop (n.) A post fixed in the earth.
Crouch :: Crouch (v. i.) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
Stoor :: Stooping () a. & n. from Stoop.
Astoop :: Astoop (adv.) In a stooping or inclined position.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body..
Lout :: Lout (v. i.) To bend; to box; to stoop.
Stoop :: Stooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stoo.
Cower :: Cower (v. i.) To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear..
Stoop :: Stoop (n.) A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection..
Stooping :: Stooped (imp. & p. p.) of Stoo.
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