Definition of supple

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Supple (a.) Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers..

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Supplial :: Suppletory (n.) That which is to supply what is wanted.
Uredo :: Uredo (n.) One of the stages in the life history of certain rusts (Uredinales), regarded at one time as a distinct genus. It is a summer stage preceding the teleutospore, or winter stage. See Uredinales, in the Supplement..
Schizomycetes :: Schizomycetes (n. pl.) An order of Schizophyta, including the so-called fission fungi, or bacteria. See Schizophyta, in the Supplement..
Supplement :: Supplementing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Supplemen.
Supplely :: Supple-jack (n.) A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem..
Supple-jack :: Supple-jack (n.) A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem..
Zeugma :: Zeugma (n.) A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote; as, hic illius arma, hic currus fuit; where fuit, which agrees directly with currus, is referred also to arma..
Supple-jack :: Supple-chapped (a.) Having a limber tongue.
Supple :: Supple (v. t.) To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather..
Pliable :: Pliable (v.) Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant..
Confirmation :: Confirmation (n.) A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc..
Supplement :: Supplely (adv.) In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly.
Mace :: Mace (n.) A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
Ascititious :: Ascititious (a.) Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed.
Supplementing :: Supplemented (imp. & p. p.) of Supplemen.
Appendix :: Appendix (n.) Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies..
Malacissation :: Malacissation (n.) The act of making soft or supple.
Equity :: Equity (n.) A system of jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it..
Suppletories :: Suppletory (a.) Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath..
Suppleness :: Supplementation (n.) The act of supplementing.
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