Supine

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.

II. Supine ·adj Lying on the back, or with the face upward;

— opposed to prone.

III. Supine ·adj Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.

IV. Supine ·noun A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine.

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