Supine
- n. 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.
- a. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; — opposed to prone.
- a. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
- a. Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.