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exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined. If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine. Dryden.

Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless. Sir K. Digby. He spake, and, downward swayed, fell resupine, With his huge neck aslant. Cowper.

In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant. Fast asleep the giant lay supine. Dryden. By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Milton.

In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit. Supinely calm and dully innocent. G. Lyttelton.

ly; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease. Void of care, he lolls supine in state. Dryden.

Servile imitation or repetition. [R.] Coleridge. "The supine parrotry." Fitzed. Hall.

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 state of lying with the face down; -- opposed to supineness.

To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. "Why slumbers Pope" Young.

Supineness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To follow, as a consequence; to await. "That ruin that waits on such a supine temper." Dr. H. More. (d) To look watchfully at; to follow with the eye; to watch. [R.] "It is a point of cunning to wait upon him with whom you speak with your eye." Bacon. (e) To attend to; to perform. "Aaron and his sons . . . shallwait on…