Droop (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Drooped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Drooping.] [Icel. dr�pa; akin to E. drop. See Drop.] 1. To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like. “The purple flowers droop.” “Above her drooped a lamp.” Tennyson.
I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift.
2. To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.
I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage. Addison.
3. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. “Then day drooped.” Tennyson.