n
The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.
v
(obsolete) To recline, as at table.
n
(rare) The state of being accumbent or reclining.
n
One who rests in an accumbent position, especially at table.
n
The state of lying down for repose, being couchant.
adj
(law, obsolete) Rising up and lying down; said of animals, indicating that they have been long enough on land, not belonging to their owner, to lie down at night and rise up to feed by day.
n
(obsolete) The act of lying down; a reclining.
n
(obsolete, rare, formal) The act of lying down.
adj
(medicine, less broadly) A position of lying on one's side, in contrast with supine or prone positions of lying down.
adj
(medicine) A reclined position of the body.
n
(medicine) The posture of someone in bed, lying down or reclining.
n
The act or posture of lying down.
adj
Lying down; reclining on the ground.
n
(obsolete) The fact of lying down, specifically of a person due to illness.
adj
(obsolete, nonce word) Fully prostrate; humble; low.
adj
(obsolete, nonce word) leaning; fitted for a reclining posture
n
The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals.
adj
(architecture) Leaning.
n
The time of retiring to rest.
n
The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.
adj
(idiomatic) without recourse; helpless
n
(representing dialect or variant pronunciation) Forehead.
adj
(with to) Prone, disposed.
v
To assume the fetal position.
n
(obsolete) The act or practice of lying on the ground.
adj
Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent.
adj
laterally recumbent (lying on its side)
n
A short period of rest while lying.
n
A person or thing that lies, in the sense of being horizontal.
n
(colloquial) a cross-legged sitting position in which the feet are resting below the lower leg of the opposite leg
adj
(obsolete) face-down; prostrate.
adv
(idiomatic) On one's hands and knees.
adj
(medicine) Lying down.
n
(medicine, obsolete) prolapse
v
(intransitive, anatomy) To become pronated.
v
(transitive, law enforcement) To order or cause a person to lie prone on the ground, usually at gunpoint and to effect a high-risk arrest.
n
A body position in which the person lies flat with the chest down and the back up.
n
(medicine) The practice of placing people into a prone position.
adj
Lying flat, face-down.
adv
In a prostrate manner or position.
n
Being laid face down (prone).
adj
Able to be tilted so as to recline.
adj
Bending or leaning backward.
adj
(botany) Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base.
n
The act of leaning or reclining.
n
A mechanism for lowering the back of a seat to support a less upright position; Also, the action of lowering the back using such a mechanism.
n
One who, or that which, reclines.
n
The position, into which helpers will typically place an unconscious person, of lying on the floor three-quarters prone, on one's side; this position maximises the likelihood of the person's airway remaining open.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To lean; to recline; to repose.
n
The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent.
n
A bicycle that places the rider in a laid-back reclining position.
adv
In a recumbent manner; while lying down.
n
(obsolete) That on which one reposes.
adj
(medicine) Lying on the back, supine.
n
The state of lying on the back; the state of being resupinate, or reversed.
adj
Lying on the back; supine.
adj
Lying face down but with the knees angled to one side.
adj
(Alexander technique) Positioned lying on one's back with the knees bent upward while the soles of the feet and the upper body remain in contact with a horizontal surface.
v
To recline while still in a seated position, with one's back on the frame of the seat.
n
The act of lying on their sides, nestled front-to-back on a bed
n
Obsolete form of stead. [(obsolete) A place, or spot, in general.]
adj
Bending the body forward in a submissive or weak manner.
adj
Prone to stooping or being bent.
adj
Somewhat or nearly recumbent.
n
The act or state of lying face upward, on one's back.
n
(US, colloquial) Time spent by an infant in the prone position while awake and supervised, supposed to reduce the risk of skull deformation from spending too much time supine.
adj
(formal) Lying face-down.
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