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Supply

SUPPLY', v.t. [L. suppleo; sub and pleo, disused, to fill.]
1. To fill up, as any deficiency happens; to furnish what is wanted; to afford or furnish a sufficiency; as, to supply the poor with bread and clothing; to supply the daily wants of nature; to supply the navy with masts and spars; to supply the treasury with money. The city is well supplied with water.
I wanted nothing fortune could supply.
2. To serve instead of.
Burning ships the banish'd sun supply.
3. To give; to bring or furnish.
Nearer care supplies
Signs to my breast, and sorrow to my eyes.
4. To fill vacant room.
The sun was set, and Vesper to supply
His absent beams, had lighted up the sky.
5. To fill; as, to supply a vacancy.
6. In general, to furnish; to give or afford what is wanted.
Modern infidelity supplies no such motives.
SUPPLY', n. Sufficiency for wants given or furnished. The poor have a daily supply of food; the army has ample supplies of provisions and munitions of war. Customs, taxes and excise constitute the supplies of revenue.
supply appears in definitions for these words:
Abundant Accommodate Adequacy Adjudication Adminicular Advance Advancing Aidant Air-pipe Air-sacs Alimental Alimentariness Alleviation Amend Amendatory Ammunition Anaplerotic Aorta Artillery Asphodel Assorting Athanor Bear Behindhand Blaast Boot But Can Cherish Compensate Competent Complemental Contemplate Copiousness Cordage Coronary Countermure Cup Deficient Draft Eke Ellipsis Emulgent Enable Enabling Engage Enlighten Enrich Enriching Entackle Entertain Equipping Estovers Exigence Expletive Extravagance Fail Failure Feed Feeding Fertilize Fill Filling Find Fit Fledge Foodful Fresh Fueling Full Furnish Furnishing Garnish Give Good Grace Graze Grazing Grist Hand Help Housebote Husband Illuminate Illumination Immediate Imperishable Implement Independent Indue Inexhaustible Innutritious Insufficiency Jurymast Keep Kind Kindness King Large Limb Litter Make Man-midwife Mend Mess Mimick Minister Mint Munition Need Needful Needing Niggard Nourish Nourishing Occasion Overplus Overstock Overstore Parish Pasture Penuriously Plenteous Plenteousness Plentiful Plentifully Plentifulness Plenty Prestimony Prothesis Provide Provident Provision Ranging Recruit Recruiting Relay Relieve Repair Reparably Reparation Replacing Replenishing Represent Requisition Reserve Reservoir Resource Revictualing Round Satisfy Satisfying Saturate Saturating Saturation Saturity Scanty Scheme Seasonable Serve Shower Siphon Slenderness Sluice Slump Sow-thistle Stock Store Subministrate Subministration Subsidy Substitution Succedaneous Suffice Sufficiency Sufficing Superfluous Suppeditate Suppeditation Supplement Supplemental Suppletory Supplial Supplied Supply Support Table Tackle Tales Tax Temporary Tender That Torcher Trim Underfurnish Unfailing Vacuity Vapor Victual Victualer Victualing Water-wort Watering Well Well-spring Were Wilderness Wing Wood Wooding

 

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