Droop (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drooped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drooping.] [Icel. drpa; akin to E. drop. See Drop.]
1.
To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like.
"The purple flowers
droop." "Above her
drooped a lamp."
Tennyson.
I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish.
Swift.
2.
To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.
I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.
Addison.
3.
To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
"Then day
drooped."
Tennyson.
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Droop, v. t.
To let droop or sink.
[R.]
M. Arnold.
Like to a withered vine
That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
Shak.
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Droop, n.
A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
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