Prone
a.
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Bending forward; inclined; not erect.
Towards him they bend
With awful reverence prone.
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Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine.
Which, as the wind,
Blew where it listed, laying all things prone.
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Headlong; running downward or headlong.
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Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level.
Since the floods demand,
For their descent, a prone and sinking land.
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Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to.
Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy.