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▪ I. drooping, vbl. n.|ˈdruːpɪŋ|
[f. droop v. + -ing1.]
The action or state expressed by the verb droop; lit. downward hang or depression; fig. falling off, pining away; dejection.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1748 He watz in drowping depe. c1400Destr. Troy 3291 Sobbyng vnfaire..with drouping on nightes. 1657Austen Fruit Trees ii. 160 To support the people of God against discouragements and droopings. 1816Byron Dream v, An unquiet drooping of the eye.
attrib.1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iv. v. 5 When saplesse Age..Should bring thy Father to his drooping Chaire.
▪ II. drooping, ppl. a.
[f. droop v. + -ing2.]
1. Hanging or bending down; descending, declining. In names of plants = L. nutans.
1590[see droop v. 2]. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xxvii. 7 Keep my drooping eyelids open wide. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. xxxviii. xi, Hang down her drooping head. 1796Withering Brit. Plants III. 144 Long stems entirely drooping. 1827Keble Chr. Y. 2nd Sund. Advent ii, Why lifts the Church her drooping head? 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. V. 275 Drooping Star of Bethlehem. 1878Britten Plant-n., Drooping Tulip, Fritillaria Meleagris.
2. Declining from vigour, prosperity, etc.; failing, decaying, flagging.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. 31 b, He that is so sower of witte, and so drowpyng of braine. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 210 Overburthened with drooping old age. 1747Gentl. Mag. 17 Drooping cattle..recover'd to their health. 1885Manch. Exam. 3 June 5/3 In the face of a drooping market.
3. Dejected, depressed, dispirited, despondent.
a1300[see droop v. 5]. 1470–85Malory Arthur ix. x, Fayr knyȝt why sytte ye soo droupyng. 1655Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 289 To reuiue y⊇ droopeing speritts of our freinds in England. 1838Thirlwall Greece IV. xxxiv. 331 To endeavour to raise their drooping spirits. |