droop

To hang downward; to sag.

On the brown harvest tree / Droops the red cherry.

Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.

To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.

Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; / While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.

The Grapes that on it hung were black, and all / The Vines supported and from drooping staid / With silver Props, that down they could not fall […]

To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.

But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?

Amidst the peaceful Triumphs of his Reign, / What wonder if the kindly beams he shed / Reviv’d the drooping Arts again […]

To allow to droop or sink.

[…] pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground;

1892, Arthur Christopher Benson, “Knapweed” in Le Cahier Jaune: Poems, Eton: privately printed, p. 62, Down in the mire he droops his head; Forgotten, not forgiven.

To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.

[…] let us forth, / I never from thy side henceforth to stray, / Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind / Laborious, till day droop […]

[…] and now when day / Droop’d, and the chapel tinkled, mixt with those / Six hundred maidens clad in purest white […]

Something which is limp or sagging.

A condition or posture of drooping.

He walked with a discouraged droop.

A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.

Drooping; adroop.

But when the melancholy fit shall fall / Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, / That fosters the droop-headed flowers all. / And hides the green hill in an April shroud :