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(<i>n.</i>) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch step as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.<p>2. (<i>n.</i>) A vessel of liquor; a flagon.<p>3. (<i>n.</i>) A post fixed in the earth.<p>4. (<i>v. i.</i>) To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.<p>5. (<i>v. i.</i>) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.<p>6. (<i>v. i.</i>) To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.<p>7. (<i>v. i.</i>) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.<p>8. (<i>v. i.</i>) To sink when on the wing; to alight.<p>9. (<i>v. t.</i>) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.<p>10. (<i>v. t.</i>) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.<p>11. (<i>v. t.</i>) To cause to submit; to prostrate.<p>12. (<i>v. t.</i>) To degrade.<p>13. (<i>n.</i>) The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.<p>14. (<i>n.</i>) Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.<p>15. 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