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To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.

il obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.

and southerly direction. He that firat discovered the use of the compass did more for the supplying and increase of useful commodities than those who built workhouses. Locke.

To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.

That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole. History is the complement of poetry. Sir J. Stephen.

Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing. "Complemental ceremony." Prynne.

A wall raised behind another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [R.] Cf. Contramure. Knolles.

To supply with cups of wine. [R.] Cup us, till the world go round. Shak.

Hot furnished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne.

To supply with customers. [Obs.] Bacon.

a or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.

etach; to select. Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples. Holwell.

falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals. Dropping bottle, an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel. -- Dropping fire, a continued irregular discharge of firearms. -- Dropping tube, a tube for ejecting any liquid in drops.

aving little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist. The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season. Addison.

truction. The assured edification of his church. Bp. Hall. Out of these magazines I shall supply the town with what may tend to their edification. Addison.

A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.

dd to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other. "To eke my pain." Spenser. He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds. Macaulay.

To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth. His lightnings enlightened the world. Ps. xcvii. 4.

To supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes.

To supply with tackle. [Obs.] Skelton.