Definition of supple

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Supple (v. t.) To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather..

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Emollient :: Emollient (a.) Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient.
Suppled :: Supple (a.) Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.
Oily :: Oily (superl.) Smoothly subservient; supple; compliant; plausible; insinuating.
Tack :: Tack (v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to..
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.
Flush :: Flush (a.) Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal..
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..
Supplement :: Supplely (adv.) In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly.
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..
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..
Hepatica :: Hepatica (n.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement..
Mace :: Mace (n.) A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
Supplementing :: Supplemented (imp. & p. p.) of Supplemen.
Adscititious :: Adscititious (a.) Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.
Supplement :: Supplement (v. t.) That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply..
Equity :: Equity (n.) A system of jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it..
Suppleness :: Supplementation (n.) The act of supplementing.
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