Dictionary entry

Mope

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mope (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Moped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Moping.] [Cf. D. moppen to pout, Prov. G. muffen to sulk.] To be dull and spiritless. “Moping melancholy.” Milton.

A sickly part of one true sense

Could not so mope. Shak.