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Prone [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Bending forward; inclined; not erect.

2. Lying with the face downward; contrary to supine.

3. Headlong; precipitous; inclining in descent.

4. Down thither prone in flight.

5. Sloping; declivous; inclined.

6. Since the floods demand

7. For their descent, a prone and sinking land.

8. Inclined; propense; disposed; applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense; as men prone to evil, prone to strife, prone to intemperance, prone to deny the truth, prone to change.

Prone [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Bending forward; inclined; not erect.

2. Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine.

3. Headlong; running downward or headlong.

4. Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level.

5. Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to.

Pronely [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a prone manner or position.

Proneness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The state of bending downwards; opposed to the erectness of man.

2. The state of lying with the face downwards; contrary to supineness.

3. Descent; declivity; as the proneness of a hill.

4. Inclination of mind, heart or temper; propension; disposition; as the proneness of the Israelites to idolatry; proneness to self-gratification or to self-justification; proneness to comply with temptation; sometimes in a good sense; as ; the proneness of good men to commiserate want.

Proneness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

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

3. Descent; declivity; as, the proneness of a hill.

4. Inclination of mind, heart, or temper; propension; disposition; as, proneness to self-gratification.

Pronephric [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to the pronephros.

Pronephron [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The head kidney. See under Head.

Pronephros [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Pronephron

Horizontality Roget’s Thesaurus §213

N. horizontality, flatness, level, # plane, stratum, dead level, dead flat, level plane, recumbency, lying down, reclination, decumbence, decumbency, discumbency|, proneness, accubation, supination, resupination, prostration, azimuth, plain, floor, platform, bowling green, cricket ground, croquet ground, croquet lawn, billiard table, terrace, estrade, esplanade, parterre, table land, plateau, ledge, butte, mesa (plain) 344, level, spirit level

V. be horizontal, lie, recline, couch, lie down, lie flat, lie prostrate, sprawl, loll, sit down, render horizontal, lay down, lay out, level, flatten, prostrate, knock down, floor, fell

Adj. horizontal, level, even, plane, flat, flat as a billiard table, flat as a bowling green, alluvial, calm, calm as a mill pond, smooth, smooth as glass, recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent, lying, prone, supine, couchant, jacent, prostrate, recubant

Adv. horizontally, on one's back, on all fours, on its beam ends

Affections Roget’s Thesaurus §820

N. affections, affect, character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone, temper, temperament, diathesis, idiosyncrasy, cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul, predilection, turn, natural turn of mind, bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness, propension, propendency|, vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle, sympathy, soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man, heart's core, heart's strings, heart's blood, heart of hearts, bottom of one's heart, penetralia mentis, secret and inmost recesses of the heart, cockles of one's heart, inmost heart, inmost soul, backbone, passion, pervading spirit, ruling passion, master passion, furore, fullness of the heart, heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of soul, energy, fervor, fire, force

V. have affections, possess affections, be of a character, be affected, breathe

Adj. affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast, attempered, tempered, framed, predisposed, prone, inclined, having a bias, tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated with, eaten up with, inborn, inbred, ingrained, deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate, pathoscopic|, congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature, inherent, in the grain, affective

Adv. in one's heart, at heart, heart and soul

Phr. "affection is a coal that must be cool'd else suffer'd it will set the heart on fire"