Supply

·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.