Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUP'PER, n. [Fr. souper. See Sup.]

The evening meal. People who dine late, eat no supper. The dinner of fashionable people would be the supper of rustics.

SUP'PER-LESS, a.

Wanting supper; being without supper; as, to go supperless to bed. Spectator.

SUP-PLANT', v.t. [Fr. supplanter; L. supplanto; sub and planta, the bottom of the foot.]

1. To trip up the heels. Supplanted down he fell. – Milton.
2. To remove or displace by stratagem; or to displace and take the place of; as, a rival supplants another in the affections of his mistress, or in the favor of his prince. Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend. – Fell.
3. To overthrow; to undermine.

SUP-PLANT-A'TION, n.

The act of supplanting.

SUP-PLANT'ED, pp.

Tripped up; displaced.

SUP-PLANT'ER, n.

One that supplants.

SUP-PLANT'ING, ppr.

Tripping up the heels; displacing by artifice.

SUP'PLE, a. [Fr. souple; Arm. soublat, soublein, to bend.]

1. Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers. – Bacon. Temple.
2. Yielding; compliant; not obstinate. If punishment makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. – Locke.
3. Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning. Addison.
4. That makes pliant; as, supple government. – Shak.

SUP'PLE, v.i.

To become soft and pliant; as, stones suppled into softness. – Dryden.

SUP'PLE, v.t.

1. To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather.
2. To make compliant. A mother persisting till she had suppled the will of her daughter. – Locke.

SUP'PLED, pp.

Made soft and pliant; made compliant.

SUP'PLE-LY, adv.

Softly; pliantly; mildly. – Cotgrave.

SUP'PLE-MENT, n. [Fr. from L. supplementum, suppleo; sub and pleo, to fill.]

1. Literally, a supply; hence, an addition to any thing, by which its defects are supplied, and it is made more full and complete. The word is particularly used of an addition to a book or paper.
2. Store; supply. [Not in use.] – Chapman.
3. In trigonometry, the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees or a semicircle.

SUP'PLE-MENT, v.t.

To add something to a writing, &c.

SUP-PLE-MENT'AL, or SUP-PLE-MENT'A-RY, a.

Additional; added to supply what is wanted; as, a supplemental law or bill.

SUP'PLE-MENT-ING, ppr.

Adding a supplement. – Chalmers.

SUP'PLE-NESS, n. [from supple.]

1. Pliancy; pliableness; flexibility; the quality of being easily bent; as, the suppleness of the joints.
2. Readiness of compliance; the quality of easily yielding; facility; as, the suppleness of the will. – Locke.

SUP'PLE-TO-RY, a. [from L. suppleo, to supply.]

Supplying deficiencies; as, a suppletory oath. – Blackstone.

SUP'PLE-TO-RY, n.

That which is to supply what is wanted. – Hammond.

SUP-PLI'AL, n.

The act of supplying. [Not used.] – Warburton.

SUP-PLI'ANCE, n.

Continuance. [Not in use.] Shak.

SUP'PLI-ANT, a. [Fr. from supplier, to entreat, contracted from L. supplico, to supplicate; sub and plico, to fold. See Comply and Apply.]

1. Entreating; beseeching; supplicating; asking earnestly and submissively. The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud. – Dryden.
2. Manifesting entreaty; expressive of humble supplication. To bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee. – Milton.

SUP'PLI-ANT, n.

A humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively. Spare this life, and hear thy suppliant's pray'r. – Dryden.

SUP'PLI-ANT-LY, adv.

In a suppliant or submissive manner.

SUP'PLI-CANT, a. [L. supplicans.]

Entreating; asking submissively. – Bp. Bull.