Definition of supple

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

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Suppled :: Supple (a.) Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.
Suppletory :: Suppletive (a.) Alt. of Suppletor.
Ascititious :: Ascititious (a.) Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed.
Uredospore :: Uredospore (n.) The thin-walled summer spore which is produced during the so-called Uredo stage of certain rusts. See (in the Supplement) Uredinales, Heter/cious, etc..
Emollient :: Emollient (a.) Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient.
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..
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..
Supple :: Supple (v. t.) To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather..
Supplemental :: Supplement (v. t.) To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to.
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..
Continuation :: Continuation (n.) That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story..
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..
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)..
Lissome :: Lissome (a.) Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.
Schizomycetes :: Schizomycetes (n. pl.) An order of Schizophyta, including the so-called fission fungi, or bacteria. See Schizophyta, in the Supplement..
Supplyment :: Supplyant (a.) Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory.
Oily :: Oily (superl.) Smoothly subservient; supple; compliant; plausible; insinuating.
Complement :: Complement (v. t.) To supply a lack; to supplement.
Suppletories :: Suppletory (a.) Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath..
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