And stoop with closing pinions from above.
Dryden.
Cowering low With blandishment, each bird stooped on his wing.
Milton.
Syn. -- To lean; yield; submit; condescend; descend; cower; shrink.
Stoop, v. t. 1. To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop
the body. "Have stooped my neck." Shak.
2. To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of
liquor.