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Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers.

Having a limber tongue. [R.] "A supple-chapped flatterer." Marston.

Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem. He was in form and spirit like a supple-jack, . . . yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke. W. Irving.

In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly. Cotgrave.

To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to. Causes of one kind must be supplemented by bringing to bear upon them a causation of another kind. I. Taylor.

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…

The act of supplementing. C. Kingsley.

The quality or state of being supple; flexibility; pliableness; pliancy.

Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.

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

Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. "Adscititious evidence." Bowring. -- Ad`sci*ti"tious*ly, adv.

Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage.

to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies.

Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope.

of the smaller vital units of a cell, the bearer of vitality and heredity. See Pangen, in Supplement.

A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.

hackle for uniting lengths of chain, or connecting a chain with an object. (b) (Railroad) Supplementary coupling together of cars with a chain. -- Chain gang, a gang of convicts chained together. -- Chain hook (Naut.), a hook, used for dragging cables about the deck. -- Chain mail, flexible, defensive armor of hamme…

itary Commission, an organization formed by the people of the North to coöperate with and supplement the medical department of the Union armies during the Civil War.

To supply a lack; to supplement. [R.]