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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. |
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To serve instead of; to take the place of. |
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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. |
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To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply
money for the war. |
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The act of supplying; supplial. |
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That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use
or want. |
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Auxiliary troops or reenforcements. |
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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. |
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An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress,
to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as,
to vote supplies. |
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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. |
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Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of
anything; as, a supply tank or valve. |
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