SUPINES

Noun

supines

plural of supine

Anagrams

• pinuses

Source: Wiktionary

SUPINE

Su*pine", a. Etym: [L. supinus, akin to sub under, super above. Cf. Sub-, Super-.]

1. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone.

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

3. Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless. He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly exposed to any temptation. Woodward.

Syn.

– Negligent; heedless; indolent; thoughtless; inattentive; listless; careless; drowsy.

– Su*pine"ly, adv.

– Su*pine"ness, n.

Su"pine, n. Etym: [L. supinum (sc. verbum), from supinus bent or thrown backward, perhaps so called because, although furnished with substantive case endings, it rests or falls back, as it were, on the verb: cf. F. supin.] (Lat. Gram.)

Definition: A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition