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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. This ordinance is called confirmation, because they who duly receive it are confirmed or strengthened for the fulfillm…

That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story. My continuation of the version of Statius. Pope.

Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient. "Emollient applications." Arbuthnot.

A system of jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it. Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application. Macaulay.

Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate. Blackstone. Common of estovers. See under Common, n.…

Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.

Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal. Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. Arbuthnot.

ryptogamous class Hepaticæ; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticæ, in the Supplement.

A supplementary sail. See Dandy, n., 2 (b).

Fig.: To treat or form as by kneading; to beat. I will knead him : I'll make him supple. Shak. Kneading trough, a trough or tray in which dough is kneaded. Ex. viii. 3.

e of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.

Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome. Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand. Tennyson.

Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom. -- Lithe"some*ness, n.

aginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. S. Sharp. Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine. Young.

A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.

The act of making soft or supple. [Obs.] Bacon.

A new or supplemental constitution. See the Note under Novel, a.

Smoothly subservient; supple; compliant; plausible; insinuating. "This oily rascal." Shak. His oily compliance in all alterations. Fuller. Oily grain (Bot.), the sesame. -- Oily palm, the oil palm.

her phrases from the Latin, see Quotations, Phrases, etc., from Foreign Languages, in the Supplement.]

Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.