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