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by supplying deficiencies;

Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory. Bancroft.

sential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies.

A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water.

A man-of-war carrying a large coal supply, and more or less protected from the enemy's shot by iron or steel armor. There is no distinct and accepted classification distinguishing armored and protected cruisers from each other, except that the first have more or heavier armor than the second.

Supplying its own power; -- applied to an instrument of the nature of a water-ram.

lly repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.

at in which distillers ferment the wort to form wash. -- Water back, a cistern to hold a supply of water; esp. a small cistern at the back of a stove, or a group of pipes set in the fire box of a stove or furnace, through which water circulates and is heated.

To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.

To afford; to be to ; to supply with. bear him company. Pope.

Supplying need; profitable; advantageous. [Obs.] Udall.

To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.

The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay. Boarding house, a house in which boarders are kept. -- Boarding nettings (Naut.), a strong network of cords or ropes erected at the side of a ship to prevent an enemy from boarding it. -- Boardi…

Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food.

to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.

A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.

an atomizing nozzle by a current of air induced by the suction of the engine piston, the supply of gasoline being regulated by a float which actuates a needle valve controlling the outlet of the feed pipe. Alcohol and other volatile inflammable liquids may be used instead of gasoline.

circuit of the other, the primary circuit of the latter being connected to the source of supply; also, a system of electric traction in which motors so connected are employed. The cascade system is also called tandem, or concatenated, system; the connection a cascade, tandem, or concatenated, connection, or a concaten…

By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to.

Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip. Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Pope.