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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Stooping :: Stooped (imp. & p. p.) of Stoo.
Cower :: Cower (v. i.) To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear..
Incline :: Incline (v. t.) To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility..
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body..
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..
Leapfrog :: Leapfrog (n.) A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former..
Condescend :: Condescend (v. i.) To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior.
Astoop :: Astoop (adv.) In a stooping or inclined position.
Crouch :: Crouch (v. i.) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
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..
Round-shouldered :: Round-shouldered (a.) Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To sink when on the wing; to alight.
Lout :: Lout (v. i.) To bend; to box; to stoop.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor..
Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
Stooped :: Stoop (n.) A post fixed in the earth.
Canceleer :: Canceleer (n.) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop..
Stoor :: Stooping () a. & n. from Stoop.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection..
Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
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