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drooping
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Drooping
(gcide) | Droop \Droop\ (dr[=oo]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drooped; p. pr.
& vb. n. Drooping.] [Icel. dr[=u]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.
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I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he
began very much to droop and languish. --Swift.
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2. 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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I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.
--Addison.
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3. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. "Then
day drooped." --Tennyson.
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drooping
(wn) | drooping
adj 1: weak from exhaustion [syn: drooping, flagging]
2: hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) [syn:
drooping, droopy, sagging]
3: having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding
daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow";
"lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers" [syn:
cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping] |
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drooping
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drooping brome
(encz) | drooping brome, n: |
drooping juniper
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droopingly
(encz) | droopingly, |
Droopingly
(gcide) | Droopingly \Droop"ing*ly\, adv.
In a drooping manner.
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Polemonium coeruleum having corymbs of drooping flowers usually blue Gray
(gcide) | Jacob \Ja"cob\, n. [Cf. F. Jacob. See 2d Jack.]
A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews),
who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (--Gen.
xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel.
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And Jacob said . . . with my staff I passed over this
Jordan, and now I am become two bands. --Gen. xxxii.
9, 10.
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Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel.
--Gen. xxxii.
28.
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Jacob's ladder.
(a) (Bot.) A perennial herb of the genus Polemonium
({Polemonium c[oe]ruleum), having corymbs of drooping
flowers, usually blue. Gray}.
(b) (Naut.) A rope ladder, with wooden steps, for going
aloft. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
(c) (Naut.) A succession of short cracks in a defective spar.
Jacob's membrane. See Retina.
Jacob's staff.
(a) A name given to many forms of staff or weapon, especially
in the Middle Ages; a pilgrim's staff. [Obs.] --Spenser.
(b) (Surveying) See under Staff.
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Undrooping
(gcide) | Undrooping \Undrooping\
See drooping. |
drooping
(wn) | drooping
adj 1: weak from exhaustion [syn: drooping, flagging]
2: hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) [syn:
drooping, droopy, sagging]
3: having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding
daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow";
"lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers" [syn:
cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping] |
drooping brome
(wn) | drooping brome
n 1: annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of
the Mediterranean [syn: downy brome, downy bromegrass,
downy cheat, downy chess, cheatgrass, {drooping
brome}, Bromus tectorum] |
drooping juniper
(wn) | drooping juniper
n 1: small tree of western Texas and mountains of Mexico having
spreading branches with drooping branchlets [syn: {Mexican
juniper}, drooping juniper, Juniperus flaccida] |
droopingly
(wn) | droopingly
adv 1: in a drooping manner; "a branch hung low, droopingly" |
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