Definition

• n. - Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
• n. - A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
• n. - A post fixed in the earth.
• v. i. - To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
• v. i. - To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
• v. i. - To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.