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To supply; to afford. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

To supply; to afford; to subminister. [Obs.] Harvey.

To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another. Sir T. Browne.

To furnish; to supply adequately. [Obs.] The power appeased, with winds sufficed the sail. Dryden.

Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.

To supply; to furnish. [Obs.] Hammond.

Supply; aid afforded. [Obs.] Bacon.

To supply with supper. [R.] "Kester was suppering the horses." Mrs. Gaskell.

That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply. [Obs.] Chapman.

Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume. Supplemental air (Physiol.), the air which in addition to the residual air remains in the lungs after ordinary expiration, but which, unlike the residual air, can be expelled; reserve…

Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.

That which is to supply what is wanted. Invent suppletories to excuse an evil man. Jer. Taylor.

The act of supplying; a supply. "The supplial of a preposition." Fitzed. Hall.

To act as sutler; to supply provisions and other articles to troops.

To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] Milton.

To supply with tackle. Beau. & Fl.

See Tea plant, above. -- Tea urn, a vessel generally in the form of an urn or vase, for supplying hot water for steeping, or infusing, tea.

A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.

Throttle valve (Steam Engine), a valve moved by hand or by a governor for regulating the supply of steam to the steam chest. In one form it consists of a disk turning on a transverse axis.