SUP'PLE, a. 1. Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as supple joints; supple fingers.2. Yielding; compliant; not obstinate. If punishment--makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.3. Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning.4. That makes plaint; as supple government.SUP'PLE, v.t. To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather. 1. To make compliant. A mother persisting till she had suppled the will of her daughter.SUP'PLE, v.i. To become soft and pliant; as stones suppled into softness.
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