Definition of supple

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Suppling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suppl.

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Tack :: Tack (n.) That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3..
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..
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 (a.) Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers..
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..
Supple-chapped :: Supple (v. i.) To become soft and pliant.
Novel :: Novel (a.) A new or supplemental constitution. See the Note under Novel, a..
Equity :: Equity (n.) A system of jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it..
Suppleness :: Supplementation (n.) The act of supplementing.
Lissome :: Lissome (a.) Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.
Supple-jack :: Supple-jack (n.) A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem..
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]..
Supplement :: Supplement (v. t.) That which fills up, completes, or makes an addition to, something already organized, arranged, or set apart; specifically, a part added to, or issued as a continuation of, a book or paper, to make good its deficiencies or correct its errors..
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..
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..
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..
Complement :: Complement (v. t.) To supply a lack; to supplement.
Suppletories :: Suppletory (a.) Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath..
Supplement :: Supplement (v. t.) That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply..
Continuation :: Continuation (n.) That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story..
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