Droop (?), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Drooped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Drooping.] [Icel. dr?pa; 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.
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.Droop, n. A drooping; as, a
droop of the eye.