LekhoriLekhoriTo slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; / While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?
Something which is limp or sagging.
A condition or posture of drooping.
He walked with a discouraged droop.
A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.
Drooping; adroop.
But when the melancholy fit shall fall / Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, / That fosters the droop-headed flowers all. / And hides the green hill in an April shroud :
Inherited from Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doub...
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