Supple /(sŭp"p'l)/

1. Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers.
2. Yielding; compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse.

   If punishment . . . makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

3. Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.

imp. & p. p. Suppled; p. pr. & vb. n. Suppling

1. To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather.

   The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep.

2. To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.

   A mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will.

   They should supple our stiff willfulness.

1. To become soft and pliant.

   The stones . . . Suppled into softness as they fell.