SPage 546
- English Word Stoop Definition 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.
- English Word Stoop Definition To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
- English Word Stoop Definition To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
- English Word Stoop Definition To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
- English Word Stoop Definition To sink when on the wing; to alight.
- English Word Stoop Definition To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
- English Word Stoop Definition To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
- English Word Stoop Definition To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- English Word Stoop Definition To degrade.
- English Word Stoop Definition The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
- English Word Stoop Definition Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
- English Word Stoop Definition The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
- English Word Stooped Definition of Stoop
- English Word Stooper Definition One who stoops.
- English Word Stooping Definition of Stoop
- English Word Stooping Definition a. & n. from Stoop.
- English Word Stoor Definition To rise in clouds, as dust.
- English Word Stoor Definition Alt. of Stor
- English Word Stop Definition To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
- English Word Stop Definition To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
- English Word Stop Definition To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.
- English Word Stop Definition To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.
- English Word Stop Definition To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.
- English Word Stop Definition To point, as a composition; to punctuate.
- English Word Stop Definition To make fast; to stopper.
- English Word Stop Definition To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.
- English Word Stop Definition To cease from any motion, or course of action.
- English Word Stop Definition To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
- English Word Stop Definition The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.
- English Word Stop Definition That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.