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One who holds to a belief in the progression of society toward perfection.

Bending forward; inclined; not erect. Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone. Milton.

To lean toward 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.

Inclining forward or toward. South.

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

the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect. And their prospect was toward the south. Ezek. xl. 44.

Toward a proximal part; on the proximal side of; proximally.

Toward or nearest, as to a body, or center of motion of dependence; proximate.

On or toward a proximal part; proximad.

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows. Shak. He put forth his hand . . . and pulled her in. Gen. viii. 9.

r. Curve of pursuit (Geom.), a curve described by a point which is at each instant moving towards a second point, which is itself moving according to some specified law.

Dipping toward all points of the compass round a center, as beds of lava round a crater.

A mole, bank, or wharf, formed toward the sea, or at the side of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in loading and unloading vessels. [Written also key.]

es (Masonry), courses of unequal thickness. -- Random shot, a shot not directed or aimed toward any particular object, or a shot with the muzzle of the gun much elevated. -- Random work (Masonry), stonework consisting of stones of unequal sizes fitted together, but not in courses nor always with flat beds.…

At or toward the rear.

Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent nerve or artery. Recurrent fever. (Med.) See Relapsing fever, under Relapsing. -- Recurrent pulse (Physiol.), the pulse beat which appears (when the radial artery is compressed at the wrist) on the distal side of the point of pressure through the arteries of the palm of…

Displayed with the back toward the spectator; -- said especially of an eagle.

A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.

st to the yard or spar. Totten. To reef the paddles, to move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.

hich it has previously moved. Refraction out of the rarer medium into the denser, is made towards the perpendicular. Sir I. Newton.