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To ply to excess; to exert with too much vigor; to overwork. Milton.

To supply in excess.

in general; a full suit of defensive armor. Milton. We had need to take the Christian panoply, to put on the whole armor of God. Ray.

Pimpled.

Fully; roundly; plainly; without reserve. [Colloq.]

To a fourfold quantity; so as to be, or cause to be, quadruple; as, to be quadruply recompensed.

To apply again.

Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.

See Replier. Bacon.

To supply again.

Having ripples; as, ripply water; hence, resembling the sound of rippling water; as, ripply laughter; a ripply cove. Keats.

Rumpled. Carlyle.

Applying to or by one's self.

In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.

y; barely. [They] make that now good or evil, . . . which otherwise of itself were not simply the one or the other. Hooker. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. Shak.

In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.

plies an artificial lake; -- often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition.

Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. [Obs.] Shak.

A supplying or furnishing; supply. [Obs.] Shak.

Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.