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a thing; to be favorably inclined or disposed; to incline; to tend. [R.] Shak. We shall propend to it, as a stone falleth down. Barrow.

Propensity. [R.]

Inclining forward or toward. South.

Same as Propylene.

Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.

The quality or state of being propense; propensity. M. Arnold. Your full consent Gave wings to my propension. Shak.

The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency. "A propensity to utter blasphemy." Macaulay.

A hypothetical hydrocarbon radical, C3H5, isomeric with allyl and glyceryl, and regarded as the essential residue of glycerin. Cf. Allyl, and Glyceryl.

To open again.

A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped.

Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.

p. p. of Shape. Chaucer.

State of being slope. Sir H. Wotton.

Stepped; gone; advanced. [Obs.] A poor widow, somedeal stope in age. Chaucer.

A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, -- minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday.

Of the value of twopence.

Having elytra; sheath-winged. [R.]

Wept. Chaucer.

ging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes. Abdominal ring (Anat.), a fancied ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring.

On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14.