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Definitions for: Supple
[adj] (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
[adj] (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; "a supple mind"; "a limber imagination"
[adj] gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease
[v] make pliant and flexible, as of leather and skins; "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use"
Webster (1913) Definition: Sup"ple, a. [OE. souple, F. souple, from L. supplex
suppliant, perhaps originally, being the knees. Cf.
Supplicate.]
1. Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple
fingers.
2. Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance;
as, a supple horse.
If punishment . . . makes not the will supple, it
hardens the offender. --Locke.
3. Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning;
obsequious. --Addison.
Syn: Pliant; flexible; yielding; compliant; bending;
flattering; fawning; soft.
Sup"ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suppled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Suppling.]
1. To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple
leather.
The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep.
--Spenser.
2. To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
A mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's
mind and suppled her will. --Locke.
They should supple our stiff willfulness. --Barrow.
Sup"ple, v. i.
To become soft and pliant.
The stones . . . Suppled into softness as they fell.
--Dryden.
Synonyms: flexible, flexile, graceful, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, slender, svelte, sylphlike
See Also: alter, change
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