english/droop
droop
Finnish English Dictionarydroop from English to Finnish
droop from Finnish to English
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* {{quote-book|en|year=1866|author=w:John Keegan Casey|chapter=Maire My Girl|title=A Wreath of Shamrocks|location=Dublin|publisher=Robert S. McGee|page=20|url=https://archive.org/details/wreathofshamrock00case
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* (quote-journal)
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* a. 1992, quote attributed to (w)
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*: I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
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* (RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth)
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* (quote-book)’s (w)s in English|location=London|publisher=William Crook|section=Book 18, p. 289|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A44266.0001.001
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* (RQ:Chambers Younger Set).
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(lb) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
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* (RQ:Shakespeare King John)
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* {{quote-text|en|year=1685|author=w:John Dryden|title=w:Threnodia Augustalis|location=London|publisher=Jacob Tonson|section=XII, p. 17|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36702.0001.001
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* (RQ:Swift Miscellanies)
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* (RQ:Addison Cato)
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* (RQ:Tennyson In Memoriam)
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(lb) To allow to droop or sink.
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* (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-1) pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground;
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* 1892, (w), “Knapweed” in ''Le Cahier Jaune: Poems'', Eton: privately printed, p. 62,https://archive.org/details/lecahierjaunepoe00bensrich
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*: Down in the mire he droops his head;
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*: Forgotten, not forgiven.
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* (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost) let us forth, / I never from thy side henceforth to stray, / Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind / Laborious, till day droop (..)|year=1873
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* (RQ:Tennyson Princess) and now when day / Droop’d, and the chapel tinkled, mixt with those / Six hundred maidens clad in purest white (..)
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A condition or posture of drooping.
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: (ux)
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(lb) A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.
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(lb) (U); adroop.
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(infl of)