mop3 (mop)

t.; pret. and pp. mopped, ppr. mopping. [ dull or listle ; especially, to be spiritle or gloomy; yield to gloom or despondency: ascom- monty used, monly used, it implies a rather trivial and weak melancholy. Or but a sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope . Shak ., Hamlet, iii. 4. 81. Demoniac phrensy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madne . Milton , P. L., xi. 485. The moping owl doth to the moon complain. Gray, Elegy. Went moping under the long shadows at sunset. D. G. Mitchell , Rev. of Bachelor, iii. II. trans. To make spiritle or melancholy. Another droops; the sun-shine makes him sad; Heav'n cannot please; one's mop'd , the other 's mad. Moquilea ing usually of a movable jaw operated by a screw or swivel, for holding the mop-cloth or ma of yarn to the mop-handle.