SUPPLE

Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers.

Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse. If punishment . . . makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. Locke.

Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious. Addison.

To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather. The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep. Spenser.

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.

To become soft and pliant. The stones . . . Suppled into softness as they fell. Dryden.