Definition of supple

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Supple (a.) Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse..

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Equity :: Equity (n.) A system of jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it..
Appendaged :: Appendaged (a.) Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage..
Supplement :: Supplely (adv.) In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly.
Supplemented :: Supplement (v. t.) The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180¡; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle..
Supple-jack :: Supple-chapped (a.) Having a limber tongue.
Continuation :: Continuation (n.) That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story..
Jigger :: "Jigger (n. & v.) A supplementary sail. See Dandy, n., 2 (b)..
Spencer :: Spencer (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]..
Biophor Biophore :: Biophor Biophore (n.) One of the smaller vital units of a cell, the bearer of vitality and heredity. See Pangen, in Supplement..
Supple-jack :: Supple-jack (n.) A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem..
Supple :: Supple (a.) Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers..
Schizomycetes :: Schizomycetes (n. pl.) An order of Schizophyta, including the so-called fission fungi, or bacteria. See Schizophyta, in the Supplement..
Ascititious :: Ascititious (a.) Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed.
Tack :: Tack (v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to..
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..
Calade :: Calade (n.) A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches..
Suppleness :: Supplementation (n.) The act of supplementing.
Supplyment :: Supplyant (a.) Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory.
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 :: Supple (v. t.) To make compliant, submissive, or obedient..
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