1. (a.) Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone\.

2. (a.) Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.

3. (a.) Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.

4. (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.

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