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

In a prone manner or position.

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

Of or pertaining to the pronephros.

The head kidney. See under Head.

Wearing an apron. A cobbler aproned, and a parson gowned. Pope.

Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.

Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons. Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. Milton.

One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms. Macaulay.

Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling. The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy. Sir W. Scott.

Proneness; tendency; as, the aptness of iron to rust.

Making undue claims and pretension; prone to arrogance. [R.] Dr. H. More.

ason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation. A creature . . . not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason. Milton.

Proneness to dispute. [Obs.] Bp. Ward.

Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect. Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall. Milton. Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect -- a column of ruins. Gibbon.

The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.

Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy. The course of excursive . . . understandings. I. Taylor. -- Ex*cur"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*cur"sive*ness, , n.

raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster. Shak.

we balanced by an equal degree of pain. Swift. The English, however, were on this subject prone to fits of jealously. Macaulay.

; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women. Man is frail, and prone to evil. Jer. Taylor.