Meanings
- not comparableDrooping.
2005, John Banville, The Sea, Leicester: W. F. Howes, Part 2, p. 187, For a second I had that image of myself again, hunched hugely on my chair, pink lower lip adroop and enormous hands lying helplessly before me on the table, a great ape, captive, tranquillised and bleary.
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Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune’s favourites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “'”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 549His friend Lou looked dismal in the rain, hat brim adroop, eyebrows soggy,
1968, Robert Coover, chapter 2, in The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., New York: Random House, page 51 - not comparableCovered (with something that droops); having something drooping over it.
fair long rows of orchard trees, adroop with rosy fruit
1891, Elizabeth Akers, “In the Fields”, in The High-Top Sweeting and Other Poems, New York: Scribner, page 572 more examples
a crushed stone walk between hedges adroop with riotously colored fruits
1945, Gardner Fox, “Man Nth”, in Planet Storiesa drive adroop with Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion
1994, William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own, New York: Scribner, published 1995, page 244
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