Stooped

ppl. a. [f. STOOP v.¹ + -ED¹.]

  1.  a. On which a bird of prey is stooping. b. Of a bird of prey: That has swooped down.

1606.  Chapman, Gentl. Usher, I. i. A 2 b. A cast of Faulcons on their merry wings, Daring the stooped prey that shifting flies.

1819.  Keats, Lamia, I. 67. While Hermes on his pinions lay, Like a stoop’d falcon ere he takes his prey.

  2.  Of the head or shoulders: Bent downwards. Of a person: Bowed, having a stoop, stooping.

1865.  Swinburne, Chastelard, I. i. 8. Which one is that, stooped somewhat in the neck, That walks so with his chin against the wind?

1873.  Miss Broughton, Nancy, xxii. II. 61. Barbara’s stooped head is hidden by her hands.

1876.  World, No. 115. V. 13. He is paler, and stooped, and supports his tottering steps with a stout walking stick.

1881.  May Laffan, in Macm. Mag., XLIV. 380. A little stooped old woman.

1897.  Howells, Landlord at Lion’s Head, 238. Over their stooped shoulders … Westover saw Alan.

  3.  Of a vessel: Tilted, inclined.

1865.  Swinburne, Poems & Ball., Ilicet, 49. The stooped urn-filling, dips and flashes.