Definition of droop

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Droop (v. i.) To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped..

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Whidah Bird :: Whidah bird () Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to the genus Vidua, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called also vida finch, whidah finch, whydah bird, whydah finch, widow bird, and widow finch..
Spaniel :: Spaniel (n.) One of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. See Illust. under Clumber, and Cocker..
Ptosis :: Ptosis (n.) Drooping of the upper eyelid, produced by paralysis of its levator muscle..
Slouch :: Slouch (n.) A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim..
Chapfallen :: Chapfallen (a.) Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen..
Halesia :: Halesia (n.) A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels..
Weep :: Weep (v. i.) To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches..
Terrier :: Terrier (n.) One of a breed of small dogs, which includes several distinct subbreeds, some of which, such as the Skye terrier and Yorkshire terrier, have long hair and drooping ears, while others, at the English and the black-and-tan terriers, have short, close, smooth hair and upright ears..
Sag :: Sag (v. i.) Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced..
Pining :: Pining (a.) Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing..
Hogging :: Hogging (n.) Drooping at the ends; arching;-in distinction from sagging.
Flaccid :: Flaccid (a.) Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh..
Flag :: Flag (v. t.) To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings..
Slouching :: Slouching (a.) Hanging down at the side; limp; drooping; without firmness or shapeliness; moving in an ungainly manner.
Piningly :: Piningly (adv.) In a pining manner; droopingly.
Languish :: Languish (v. i.) To cause to droop or pine.
Drooped :: Drooped (imp. & p. p.) of Droo.
Cernuous :: Cernuous (a.) Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; -- said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss..
Hound :: Hound (n.) A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc..
Wilt :: Wilt (v. i.) To begin to wither; to lose freshness and become flaccid, as a plant when exposed when exposed to drought, or to great heat in a dry day, or when separated from its root; to droop;. to wither..
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