Pa. t. and pa. pple. stooped. Forms: 1 stúpian, 2–4 stupen, 4–7 stoupe (4 stope), 5 stowpe, 7 stoup, 6 stoope, 6– stoop. [OE. stúpian wk. vb. corresp. to MDu. stûpen (WFlem. stuipen, now conjugated strong), ON. stúpa (once, in inf.; MSw., Sw. stupa wk. vb., Norw. stupa str. vb.); related by ablaut to OTeut. *staupo- STEEP adj. For the phonology of the mod. Eng. form cf. coop, droop, where ME. ū before p has similarly remained unchanged.]
I. To bow down, to descend.
1. intr. Of a person: To lower the body by inclining the trunk or the head and shoulders forward, sometimes bending the knee at the same time. Often with down.
c. 893. K. Ælfred, Oros., VI. xxiii. Þæt he swa oft sceolde stupian swa he to his horse wolde, & he þonne se cyning hæfde his hrycg him to hliepan.
a. 1225. Juliana, 72. As ha schulde stupen ant strecchen forð þe swire [sc. to be beheaded].
c. 1275. Passion our Lord, 559, in O. E. Misc. He adun stupede and lokede myd eye.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 13728. He stuped dun, and wit his hand He wrat a quil in to þe sand.
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 5613. He stouped down to seke a stone.
13[?]. K. Alis., 1103. Alisaundre anvied was; Over the table he gon stoupe, And smot Lifias with the coupe.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. V. 394. I moste sitte … I may nouȝte stonde ne stoupe ne with-oute a stole knele.
c. 1380. Sir Ferumb., 4065. As lef me were her stope adoun, & lete gurd of myn heued.
1388. Wyclif, John xx. 5. And whanne he stoupide, he sai the schetis liynge, netheles he entride.
a. 1400. Octouian, 1141. In haste the geaunt stupte adoun, With the left hond to take vp the fachoun.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 2662. Than shalt thou stoupe, and lay to ere, If they within a-slepe be.
c. 1450. Merlin, vii. 119. He … smote the kynge loth vpon the helme that he made hym stoupe on the arson of his sadell.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, IX. xxxiii. 391. Thenne sir Tristram was ware of hym & there he stouped a syde.
a. 1500. Abraham, 378, in Brome Bk., 66. But, fader, wyll I stowppe downe lowe, ȝe wyll not kyll me with ȝowre sword, I trowe?
1530. Palsgr., 737/2. I stowpe downe to take upe a thyng, je me penche.
1553. Eden, Treat. New Ind. (Arb.), 25. All suche as wayte on hym, stoup downe & make lowe curtesie.
1565. Cooper, Thesaurus, s.v. Pronus, Thou stoupest downe & drinkest water.
1584. Cogan, Haven Health, i. (1612), 3. Stouping and rising oftentimes,… these doe excercise the backe and loines.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. v. 12. He … with so exceeding furie at him strake, That forced him to stoupe upon his knee.
1603. G. Owen, Pembrokeshire (1891), 253. A man on horsbacke, may well ride vnder it, without stowpinge.
1603. B. Jonson, Panegyre K. Jas., 23. Beside her stoup’t on either hand, a maid.
1649. E. Reynolds, Hosea, vii. 124. Angels … stoope down with their faces towards the mercy Seat.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., III. 169. The Youthful Charioteers with heaving Heart … Stoop to the Reins, and lash with all their Force.
1794. Mrs. Radcliffe, Myst. Udolpho, xxxviii. Dorothée, now stooping to pick up something that had dropped from among the papers, suddenly exclaimed [etc.].
1847. C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, xxxiv. He raised his head suddenly from the desk over which he was stooping.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, xii. He had just stooped to reach his manuscript, which had rolled down.
1900. L. Huxley, Life Prof. Huxley, II. vi. 65. To stoop over the microscope was a physical discomfort.
¶ b. In ME. poetry occas. used for: To fall headlong. Obs.
13[?]. Sir Beues, 3817. Taile ouer top he made him stoupe.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 7256. He hit on his helme with a heuy sword, þat greuit hym full gretly, gert hym to stoupe.
c. 1430. Syr Gener. (Roxb.), 3821. With his launce grete and square To Sir Abel grymlie he bare That he made him low stoupe Bakward ouer his hors croupe.
c. Said of the head or shoulders.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, VIII. 297. With hedis stowpand and speris straucht Richt to the kyng thar vay thai raucht.
1576. Gascoigne, Grief of Joye, II. li. Owre showlders stowpe, wch erst stood bolt upright.
a. 1616. ? Beaum. & Fl., Faithful Friends, I. i. MS. Dyce Collect. No. 10. 4. The Sabines are in Armes, whose Stuborn neckes These many yeares stoopt to the yoake of Roome.
1663. Butler, Hud., I. i. 286. His Back, or rather Burthen show’d As if it stoop’d with its own load.
† d. Of a quadruped: To crouch. Obs.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. vi. 25. He would learne The Lyon stoup to him in lowly wise.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Nice Valour, IV. i. This fellow … Stoops like a Cammell, that Heroick beast, At a great load of Nutmegs.
e. Of a dog: To put its nose to the ground to find a scent.
1523–34. Fitzherb., Husb., § 41. It is harde to make an olde dogge to stoupe.
1781. P. Beckford, Th. Hunting (1802), 91. When your young hounds stoop to a scent,… you may then begin to put them into the pack.
1897. [see STOOPING vbl. sb.].
2. fig. a. To ‘bow’ to superior power or authority; to humble oneself, yield obedience. Const. to, under. Now somewhat rare.
1530. Palsgr., 737/2. Thought you be never so prowde a varlet, I wyll make you stowpe or you go.
1535. Coverdale, Job ix. 3. He is God … the proudest of all must stoupe vnder him [Luther: unter ihn müssen sich beugen].
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 52. Stoope Englande stoope, and learne to knowe thy lorde and master.
1590. Levins, Manip., 221/30. To stoupe, humiliare se.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit. (1637), 118. By the Scots that infested them out of Ireland, they were made to stoop.
c. 1640. Shirley, Cont. Ajax & Ulysses (1659), 128. Early or late, They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they pale Captives creep to death.
1642. Fuller, Holy St., II. xxi. 134. Here Drake received a dangerous wound, though he valiantly conceal’d it for a long time, knowing if his heart stooped, his mens would fall.
1646. H. P., Medit. Seige, 98. He hath … made his desires stoope unto his reason.
1666. Dk. Newcastle, in 11th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 14. His … victory over his enemies, which will make all his neyghbor kinges stoope to him.
1710. O. Sansom, Acc. Life, 43. Because I would not stoop under them,… to promise to go to no more Meetings … they Fined me Five Pounds.
a. 1715. Burnet, Own Time, III. (1724), I. 523. The Duke now seemed to triumph in Scotland. All stooped to him.
1752. Young, Brothers, IV. i. Tho’ Thrace by conquest stoops to Macedon, I know my rank.
1837. Thirlwall, Greece, xxix. IV. 104. A Spartan generally found it the hardest of all things to stoop.
† b. To submit to something burdensome. Obs.
1611. B. Jonson, Catiline, IV. i. Good and great men: that know how To stoupe to wants, and meete necessities.
1621. T. Williamson, trans. Goulart’s Wise Vieillard, 105. Why should hee which knowes, and takes himselfe to be a man,… refuse to put vnder his shoulder and stoope to those ieopardies burthens, and crosses.
1621. in Foster, Eng. Factories Ind. (1906), 265. More losse then wee have reason to stoope unto.
1647. N. Bacon, Disc. Govt. Eng., I. iv. 13. It had been better for them to have stooped to hard conditions with the Picts.
c. To condescend to one’s inferiors or to some position or action below one’s rightful dignity.
1579. W. Wilkinson, Confut. Fam. Love, 18. God … stoupeth and lispeth with us that we may understand him.
1661. Boyle, Style Script. (1675), 241. The Divine inspirer of the Scripture, ev’n when his style seems most to stoop to our capacities, doth yet retain a prerogative above meerly humane writings.
a. 1669. Stillingfl., Six Serm., v. 195. Is Religion a beggarly and contemptible thing, that it doth not become the greatness of your mindes to stoop to take any notice of it?
1671. Trenchfield, Cap Gray Hairs (1688), 4. And tho some Fathers … have undertook to give advice unto their Sons;… yet there’s not any (that I know of) hath stoopt so low, to give advice to an Apprentice.
1687. T. Brown, Saints in Uproar, Wks. 1730, I. 78. I can hardly believe that such nice, well-bred ladies, as those are, would stoop to so vile a drudgery.
1703. De Foe, in 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. IV. 61. Nor is there anything so mean (which I can honestly stoop to do) that I would not submit to, to obtain her Majesty’s favour.
1766. Goldsm., Vicar, xxx. If you can stoop to an alliance with a family so poor as mine, take her. Ibid. (1773) (title), She stoops to conquer.
1820. W. Irving, Sketch Bk., I. 195. Stooping from his high estate to sow the sweet flowers of poetry and song.
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., I. I. 139. A Latin cramp enough … But interfilleted with Italian streaks When testimony stooped to mother-tongue.
1867. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), I. iv. 193. The Aquitanian princes now and then stooped to pay a nominal homage.
d. To lower or degrade oneself morally; to descend to something unworthy.
1743. Bulkeley & Cummins, Voy. S. Seas, Ded. p. iv. A British Seaman hath a Spirit too brave to stoop to so degenerate a Practice.
1751. Johnson, Rambler, No. 96, ¶ 5. Many whom their conscience can scarcely charge with stooping to a lie, have [etc.].
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxi. IV. 555. He … was incapable of stooping to an act of baseness.
1891. Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, xxxiv. Her son stooped to the most ignoble methods for rendering her life miserable.
3. Of a thing: To incline from the perpendicular; to bend down; to slope; to hang over.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., III. 266. Ȝyf seo sunne hine [the new moon] onælð ufan þonne stupað he [i.e., has the concave side inclined downward].
1340. Ayenb., 151. Uor he nimþ hede þet his tour ne hongi ne stoupi.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, II. 968. As flouris, thurgh cold of nyghte Yclosid, stoupyn in her stalkys lowe.
1422. Yonge, trans. Secreta Secret., 233. He that hath a longe noose and Sum-whate stowpynge and strachynge toward the mouthe, he is worthy and hardy. Ibid., 234. Who-so hath a leiand Plate noose amyd, stoupynge to-warde the butte, he is a iogoloure.
1592. Shaks., Ven. & Ad., 1028. The grasse stoops not, she treads on it so light.
1615. J. Taylor (Water P.), Fair & Foul Weather, B 1 b. With a troope Of full mouth’d windes, that made great oakes to stoope.
1702. Milit. Dict., s.v. Bomb, Rowling down Bombs upon them along a Plank set stooping towards their Works.
1683. Temple, Mem., Wks. 1731, I. 419. Nimeguen is seated upon the Side of a Hill, which … stoops upon the River Waal.
1827. Scott, Highl. Widow, i. The rocks and precipices which stooped down perpendicularly on our path. Ibid. (1829), Anne of G., ii. He felt the huge cliff on which he stood, tremble, stoop slowly forward, and gradually sink from its position.
1885. Athenæum, 23 May, 669/1. The crests of the rushes … are not stirred sufficiently to make them stoop.
† b. Of a heavenly body: To bend its course downward; to begin to descend. Obs.
1615. Chapman, Odyss., XII. 444. In Nights third part; when stars began to stoope; The Cloud-assembler, put a Tempst vp.
1631. Knevet, Rhodon & Iris, IV. iii. G 2 b.
| I saw the blazing meteor stoupe, | |
| And bend his course toward the humble Center. |
† c. Naut. To heel over. Obs.
1663. Sir W. Petty, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), I. 103. Our vessel … hath sailed by and large, to the admiration of some hundred seamen … for … keeping a wind,… not stooping, staying and steering.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., 121. The line unto which she stoops upon a Wind of either side. Ibid., 124. The Ship upon a Wind, is to stoop upon a certain Angle.
4. To stand or walk with the shoulders bent or the upper part of the body inclined forwards; esp. to have habitually or permanently this kind of attitude.
a. 1340. Hampole, Pr. Consc., 777. His sight wax dym … His bak waxes croked, stoupand he gas.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), II. 185. In his elde þe stature boweþ and crokeþ and stoupeþ adoun.
1474. Caxton, Chesse, II. ii. (1883), 29. So olde that he stowped & quaqued for age.
1530. Palsgr., 737/2. Sche is but a yong wenche and yet sche stowpyth and sche were an owlde woman.
1605. Proclam. Search T. Percy, 5 Nov. He stoupeth somewhat in the shoulders.
1611. Bible, 2 Chron. xxxvi. 17. The king of the Caldees … had no compassion vpon … olde man, or him that stouped for age.
1776. Pennsylv. Even. Post, 30 April, 220/1. Two … servant women. One … tall and lusty, stoops in her shoulders.
1838. Lytton, Alice, II. iii. Cissy, my love, don’t stoop so.
1856. Compaing & Devere, Tailor’s Guide Cutting, 9. A man stoops, when, instead of standing upright, he usually carries his body forward, and becomes shorter in front and longer behind.
1905. Elin. Glyn, Viciss. Evangeline, 89. She was very tall and thin, and stooped dreadfully.
† 5. To descend from a height. Obs.
1608. B. Jonson, Masque at Ld. Hadington’s Marr., Wks. (1616), 939. Venus, is this a time to quit your carre? To stoope to earth? to leaue alone, your starre, Without your influence?
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., XI. xxxv. Soon stoops the speedie Herauld through the aire.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., IV. 75. The winged Nation wanders thro’ the Skies,… Then stooping on the Meads and leafy Bow’rs, They skim the Floods, and sip the purple Flow’rs.
1847. Tennyson, Princess, vii. The cloud may stoop from heaven and take the shape With fold to fold, of mountain or of cape.
† b. To be lowered in amount or degree. Obs.
1572. Malim, trans. Martinengo’s Famagusta, 9 b. All our prouision within the Citie stooping very lowe.
1608. Chapman, Byron’s Consp., I. ii. 182. Your highnesse makes the light of this Court stoope, With your so neere departure.
6. Of a hawk or other bird of prey: To descend swiftly on its prey, to swoop (const. at, on); also, to descend to the lure. Also fig.
1575. Turberv., Falconrie, 123. The Almaines doe flee at the Pye with a lease or twoo caste of Falcons at once, and they make them to mownte and to stowpe.
1577. Grange, Golden Aphrod., G ij b. With lure I play the Faukner kinde,… I shake my fiste, I whistle shrill, but nought will make hir stoupe.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., II. xi. 43. As when Joves harnesse-bearing Bird from hye Stoupes at a flying heron with proud disdayne.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., II. ii. III. (1624), 208. A Hawke … when the game is sprung, comes down amaine, & stoupes vpon a sudden.
1675. Traherne, Chr. Ethics, 457. An eagle cannot stoop at flies.
1717. Bolingbroke, Lett. to Sir W. Windham (1753), 147. Whether the priest had stooped at the lure of a cardinal’s hat,… I know not.
1779. Sheridan, Critic, I. i. The follies and foibles of society are subjects unworthy the notice of the comic muse, who should be taught to stoop only at the … blacker crimes of humanity.
1825. Scott, Betrothed, xxiii. At length one of the falcons had reached a pitch from which she ventured to stoop at the heron.
1828. Sir J. S. Sebright, Observ. Hawking, 27. The magpie is to be driven from his retreat, and the hawk, if at a good pitch, will stoop at him as he passes to another bush.
1847. C. Brontë, Jane Eyre (ed. 2), Pref. Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does.
1895. J. G. Millais, Breath fr. Veldt (1899), 121. Tawny eagle stooping at wounded steinbuck.
b. trans. = To stoop at or on. ? Obs.
1575. Turberv., Falconrie, 154. Then shall you first cast off a well quarried or make Hawke, and let hir stoupe a fowle vpon a brooke or a plashe.
1583. T. Watson, Poems (Arb.), 83. In time all haggred Haukes will stoope the Lures.
1607. Dekker & Webster, Northw. Hoe, V. i. G 4 b. See the hawke that first stoopt my phesant is kild by [etc.].
1618. Fletcher, Loyal Subj., I. ii. He flies to stoop our favours.
II. Causative uses.
7. trans. To cause to bow down, bring to the ground; fig. to humiliate, subdue. Now rare.
c. 1205. Lay., 25950. Mon ne mæi mid strenðe stupen hine to grunde.
1594. Kyd, Cornelia, II. 153. [Caesar] that toyld To stoope the world and Rome to his desires.
1594. Chapman, Shadow of Nt., B iij. Shoote, shoote, and stoope his pride.
c. 1600. Distr. Emperor, IV. iii. in Bullen, O. Pl. (1884), III. 236. I cannot stoope the harte of Ganelon.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, VI. 407. The Gods may stoupe me by the Greekes. Ibid. (1615), Odyss., V. 321. He fell to felling downe; And twentie trees he stoopt, in litle space.
1616. R. Niccols, Overburies Vis. (1873), 13. Hee, whose conquering stroke Did stoope our neckes to Norman rule.
a. 1630. S. Page, Ps. xi. 6, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., I. 155. [The snares] of our own sins … Keep down our heads, and stoop us that we cannot look up.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., IX. 855. Turn we, nor will hear … what they [the stars] would impart For man’s emolument, sole cause that stoops Their grandeur to man’s eye?
1839. Blackw. Mag., XLVI. 279. The worst symptom is at home, in the wretched impolicy which stoops Government to the rabble.
1856. Lever, Martins of Cro’ Martin, xli. A very large, powerfully-built man, somewhat stooped by age.
1901. Jane Barlow, Ghost-bereft, 65. The wind in the trees stooped the straightest that stood All its own way.
† b. passive. To be curved downwards. Obs.
1681. Grew, Musæum, I. § 5 i. 100. The Brasilian Frog-fish … hath a black Horn on his Forehead, stooped forwards.
8. To bow (the head, † face, neck, knee); to incline (one’s ear). Also to sloop an eye on (? nonce-use), to deign to glance at.
1634. Milton, Comus, 333. Thou fair Moon … Stoop thy pale visage through an amber cloud.
1655. W. Hammond, On death of Brother, Poems 67. But stoop thine eare ill-councelld youth, and hark.
1771. Muse in Miniature, 146. To him I stoop the penitential knee.
1777. Potter, Æschylus, Prometh. Chain’d, 56 Chorus. What, shall high Jove bend to a greater lord? Prometheus. And to a yoke more galling stoop his neck.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xxii. With his face stooped against his hands. Ibid. (1825), Talism., vii. He then stooped his lofty crest, and entered a lowly hut.
1831. G. P. R. James, Phil. Augustus, I. xv. He pushed his way through the foliage, stooping his head to prevent the branches striking him in the face.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. xxii. 155. In getting through the rocks … I once had occasion to stoop my head.
1885–94. R. Bridges, Eros & Psyche, May xix. Here Zeus, in likeness of a tawny bull, Stoop’d on the Cretan shore his mighty knee.
1904. Weyman, Abbess of Vlaye, xi. This puling girl on whom the Captain of Vlaye had stooped an eye.
b. refl. or quasi-refl. = sense 1.
1808. Scott, Marm., VI. xxx. She stoop’d her by the runnel’s side. Ibid. (1814), Lord of Isles, III. xii. Where Coolin stoops him to the west, They saw upon his shiver’d crest The sun’s arising gleam.
1849. Rock, Ch. of Fathers, I. viii. (1903), III. 65. While he … stoops him down to read the legend.
c. fig. To condescend to apply (one’s thoughts, etc.) to something unworthy.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. i. 143. Let other-some (whose fainting Spirits do droop) Down to the ground their meditations stoop.
1698. Collier, Short View, i. 3. I’m sorry the Author should stoop his Wit thus Low.
1718. Pope, Iliad, XI. 95. None stoop’d a Thought to base inglorious Flight.
1866. Lytton, Lost Tales Miletus, Pref. p. vii. In this selection I have avoided … the more licentious themes, to which … the Boccacios of Miletus sometimes stooped their genius.
† 9. To let down, lower, ‘vail.’ Often Naut. and Mil. to lower (a sail, an ensign). Obs.
1530. Tindale, Gen. xxiv. 14. The damsell to whom I saye, stoupe doune thy pytcher and let me drynke.
1593. Drayton, Sheph. Garland, IX. xv. With that fayre Cynthya stoups her glittering vayle, And diues adowne into the Ocean flood. Ibid. (1597), Heroic. Ep., Q. Isab. to Rich. II., 104. Nor durst his slugging Hulks approch the strand, Nor stoop’d a top as signall to the Land. Ibid. (1612), Poly-olb., VIII. 212. Nor with that Consull ioyn’d, Vespasian could make them stoope their saile.
1639. S. Du Verger, trans. Camus’ Admir. Events, 180. Fortune is constrained to stoope her ensign before her.
1672. T. Venn, Milit. Observ., 175. You shall see some Ensigns let fly their Colours, when they should sink them; and some to stoop them to Pesants or Comrades, when Superiors have gone unsaluted.
1687. A. Lovell, trans. Thevenot’s Trav., II. 24. They made many bows to the East lifting up the right hand to their head, and then stooping it down to the ground.
1697. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., II. 56. A Man must stoop his hand for his Friend, and raise him up towards his own Ground.
fig. a. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom. (1622), Pref. p. xviii. The highest points, which I have carefully indeauoured to stoop and demitte, euen to the capacitie of the very lowest.
b. Of a bird, etc.: To direct (its flight) downwards.
1810. Scott, Lady of L., II. xxxiii. Like the ill Demon of the night, Stooping his pinions’ shadowy sway Upon the nighted pilgrim’s way. Ibid. (1824), St. Ronan’s, vi. This is not the way of the world, my good sir, to which even Genius must stoop its flight.
† 10. To put down, stake (money) on a game.
c. 1550. Dice-Play (Percy Soc.), 27. He that will not stoop a dodkin at the dice, per chaunce at cardes will spend God’s cope.
1591. Greene, 2nd Pt. Conny Catching (1592), B 4 b. The Conny-catchers … began to lay the plot how they might make him stoope all the money in his purse. Ibid. (1592), Def. Conny Catching, To Rdr. Some that would not stoope a farthing at cardes, would venter all the byte in their boung at dice.
† 11. To plunge (a knife) in a person’s body. Obs.
1662. Lamont, Diary (Maitl. Club), 145. [He] was strangled in his bed priuately, and, fearing he sould recouered, a knife was stooped in his throat.
12. To tilt (a cask). Now dial. Cf. STEEP v.2 1.
a. 1670. Hacket, Abp. Williams, I. (1692), 59. To stoop this Vinacre to the very Lees.
1788. G. Keate, Pelew Isl., xxv. 312. The only conveniency they had of keeping water … was in thick bamboos, that had a bore of five or six inches diameter; these they placed upright, and stooped them when they wanted to pour any out.
1823. J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., 161. Stoop the vessel sideways.
1838. Holloway, Prov. Dict., To stoop, to put a piece of wood behind a cask that is nearly empty, so as to raise the hinder part, in order to let the contents run out.
13. To train (a dog) to ‘stoop’ for a scent. Cf. 1 e.
1781. P. Beckford, Th. Hunting (1802), 85. It is now time to stoop them to a scent.
1826. J. Cook, Fox-hunting, 23. You will soon find they [the young hounds] will ‘down with their noses’ without being unnaturally stooped to Hare.
III. 14. Comb.: † stoop-frog (? nonce-wd.), an oppressor of frogs (the King Stork of the fable).
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., VI. xxxii. 160. This stoope-Frog Æsops Storke.
