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A falling down; a prolapsus. [R.] Parr.

Lying down, or on the face; prone. " Procumbent each obeyed." Cowper.

tance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship. He made a proffer to lay down his commission. Clarendon.

Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. A race more profligate than we. Roscommon. Made prostitute and profligate muse. Dryden.

To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum. Dunglison.

written or spoken; as, a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon. With wig prolix, down flowing to his waist. Cowper.

The act of turning the palm or palmar surface of the forefoot downward.

Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine. Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone. Byron.

The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man.

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

One who makes a proposal, or lays down a proposition. Dryden.

To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants. Evelyn.

The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body.

To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.

A mathematical instrument for laying down and measuring angles on paper, used in drawing or in plotting. It is of various forms, semicircular, rectangular, or circular.

birds whose young at first have down on the pterylæ only; -- called also Gymnopædes.

Having down upon the pterylæ only; -- said of the young of certain birds.

point of suspension of the lower jaw. -- Pterygoid process (Anat.), a process projecting downward from either side of the sphenoid bone, in man divided into two plates, an inner and an outer. The posterior nares pass through the space, called the pterygoid fossa, between the processes.

Having nearly the whole surface of the skin covered with down; dasypædic; -- said of the young of certain birds.