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suppled


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Supple  \Sup"ple\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Suppled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Suppling}.] 
  1.  To  make  soft  and  pliant;  to  render  flexible;  as  to  supple 
  leather. 
 
  The  flesh  therewith  she  suppled  and  did  steep. 
  --Spenser. 
 
  2.  To  make  compliant,  submissive,  or  obedient. 
 
  A  mother  persisting  till  she  had  bent  her  daughter's 
  mind  and  suppled  her  will  --Locke. 
 
  They  should  supple  our  stiff  willfulness.  --Barrow.