Definition of supple

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

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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..
Malacissation :: Malacissation (n.) The act of making soft or supple.
Suppled :: Supple (a.) Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.
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..
Jigger :: "Jigger (n. & v.) A supplementary sail. See Dandy, n., 2 (b)..
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]..
Suppletories :: Suppletory (a.) Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath..
Appendix :: Appendix (n.) Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies..
Supplemental :: Supplement (v. t.) To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to.
Biophor Biophore :: Biophor Biophore (n.) One of the smaller vital units of a cell, the bearer of vitality and heredity. See Pangen, in Supplement..
Adscititious :: Adscititious (a.) Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.
Supplely :: Supple-jack (n.) A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem..
Tack :: Tack (v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to..
Supple-jack :: Supple-chapped (a.) Having a limber tongue.
Suppletory :: Suppletories (pl. ) of Suppletor.
Supple :: Supple (v. t.) To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather..
Calade :: Calade (n.) A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches..
False :: False (superl.) Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental..
Tack :: Tack (n.) That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3..
Supplement :: Supplementing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Supplemen.
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