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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Lissome :: Lissome (a.) Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.
Suppletories :: Suppletory (a.) Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath..
Equity :: Equity (n.) A system of jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it..
False :: False (superl.) Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental..
Tack :: Tack (v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to..
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..
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)..
Uredo :: Uredo (n.) One of the stages in the life history of certain rusts (Uredinales), regarded at one time as a distinct genus. It is a summer stage preceding the teleutospore, or winter stage. See Uredinales, in the Supplement..
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]..
Supplementing :: Supplemented (imp. & p. p.) of Supplemen.
Supplyment :: Supplyant (a.) Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory.
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-chapped :: Supple (v. i.) To become soft and pliant.
Emollient :: Emollient (a.) Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient.
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..
Lithesome :: Lithesome (a.) Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.
Ascititious :: Ascititious (a.) Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed.
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..
Supplementary :: Supplemental (a.) Alt. of Supplementar.
Suppled :: Supple (a.) Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.
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