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, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of ke…

A vessel of liquor; a flagon. [Written also stoup.] Fetch me a stoop of liquor. Shak.

One who stoops.

from Stoop. -- Stoop"ing*ly, adv.

To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.

See Sweepstake. [Obs.]

a number; a multitude. That which should accompany old age --As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends --I must not look to have. Shak.

Any troupial.

A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.

The American scaup duck. [Local, U. S.]

Same as Troupial.

By troops; in crowds. [Obs.] So, troopmeal, Troy pursued a while, laying on with swords and darts. Chapman.

A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport. [Eng.]

To strip or deprive of hoops; to take away the hoops of.

The hoopoe.

One who, or that which, whooops. Woopher swan. (Zoöl.) See the Note under Swan.

a. & n. from Whoop, v. t. Whooping cough (Med.), a violent, convulsive cough, returning at longer or shorter intervals, and consisting of several expirations, followed by a sonorous inspiration, or whoop; chin cough; hooping cough. Dunglison. -- Whooping crane (Zoöl.), a North American crane (Crus Americana) noted for…

Animal pathology.

An artificial group comprising various carnivorous and insectivorous animals.

A animal that feeds on animal food.