Definition of supple

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

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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..
Tack :: Tack (v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to..
Supple :: Supple (a.) Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers..
Supplial :: Suppletory (n.) That which is to supply what is wanted.
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..
Supplement :: Supplely (adv.) In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly.
Supplyment :: Supplyant (a.) Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory.
Supple :: Supple (v. t.) To make compliant, submissive, or obedient..
Mace :: Mace (n.) A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
Adscititious :: Adscititious (a.) Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.
Complement :: Complement (v. t.) To supply a lack; to supplement.
Lithesome :: Lithesome (a.) Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.
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]..
Tack :: Tack (n.) That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3..
Ascititious :: Ascititious (a.) Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed.
Supple :: Supple (v. t.) To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather..
Rhamnaceous :: Rhamnaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of shrubs and trees (Rhamnaceae, or Rhamneae) of which the buckthorn (Rhamnus) is the type. It includes also the New Jersey tea, the supple-jack, and one of the plants called lotus (Zizyphus)..
Suppleness :: Supplementation (n.) The act of supplementing.
Counterpart :: Counterpart (n.) A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another thing, or which supplements it; that which serves to complete or complement anything; hence, a person or thing having qualities lacking in another; an opposite..
Estovers :: Estovers (n. pl.) Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate..
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