*poop*

n. [ OF. liripipion, liripion, LL. liripipium. Said to be corrupted from L. cleri ephippium, lit., the clergy's caparison. ] 1. A pendent part of the old clerical tippet; afterwards, a tippet; a scarf; -- worn also by doctors, learned men, etc. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Acuteness; smartness; also, a smart trick or stratagem. [ Obs. ] Stanihurst. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A silly person. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A liripoop, vel lerripoop, a silly, empty creature; an old dotard. Milles. MS. Devon Gloss. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A corruption of non compos. ] A fool; a silly or stupid person. [ Law ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An old ninnyhammer, a dotard, a nincompoop, is the best language she can afford me. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Excrement; feces; -- informal baby talk sometimes used as a euphemism. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

n. (Arch.) See 2d Poppy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Pooped p. pr. & vb. n. Pooping. ] [ Cf. D. poepen. See Pop. ] To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. poupe; cf. Sp. & Pg. popa, It. poppa; all fr. L. puppis. ] (Naut.) A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost or after part of a vessel's hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck. See Poop deck, under Deck. See also Roundhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

With wind in poop, the vessel plows the sea. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The poop was beaten gold. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Naut.) (a) To break over the poop or stern, as a wave. “A sea which he thought was going to poop her.” Lord Dufferin. (b) To strike in the stern, as by collision. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. (Naut.) 1. Having a poop; furnished with a poop. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Struck on the poop. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tired; exhausted; fatigued. [ PJC ]