Definition of supple

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

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Supple :: Supple (v. t.) To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather..
Supple-jack :: Supple-chapped (a.) Having a limber tongue.
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]..
Lienculus :: Lienculus (n.) One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.
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..
Complement :: Complement (v. t.) To supply a lack; to supplement.
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..
Supplial :: Suppletory (n.) That which is to supply what is wanted.
Emollient :: Emollient (a.) Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient.
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..
Supplementation :: Supplementary (a.) Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume..
Suppled :: Supple (a.) Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.
Adscititious :: Adscititious (a.) Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.
Purana :: Purana (n.) One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas..
Appendaged :: Appendaged (a.) Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage..
Supple :: Supple (v. t.) To make compliant, submissive, or obedient..
Ripieno :: Ripieno (a.) Filling up; supplementary; supernumerary; -- a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato..
Supplemental :: Supplement (v. t.) To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to.
Supplement :: Supplement (v. t.) That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply..
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..
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