·noun The act of supplying; supplial.
II. Supply ·noun Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.
III. Supply ·vt To serve instead of; to take the place of.
IV. Supply ·noun That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
V. Supply ·adj Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
VI. Supply ·vt To
Give; to bring or furnish; to
Provide; as, to
supply money for the war.
VII. Supply ·noun A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; ·esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit.
VIII. Supply ·noun An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.
IX. Supply ·vt To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to
Occupy; to have possession of; as, to
supply a pulpit.
X. Supply ·noun The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store;
- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.
XI. Supply ·vt To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake;
- often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition.