Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone.
Milton.
2. Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to
supine.
Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone.
Byron.
3. Headlong; running downward or headlong. "Down thither prone in
flight." Milton.
4. Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined;
not level.
Since the floods demand, For their descent, a prone and sinking
land.
Blackmore.
5. Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or affections,
usually in an ill sense. Followed by to. "Prone to mischief." Shak.
Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy.
Landor.
Prone"ly, adv. In a prone manner or position.
Prone"ness, n.
1. The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the
proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man.