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Meaning Of Supine
a.
Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to
prone.
a.
Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun;
sloping; inclined.
a.
Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
n.
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.