Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as supple joints; supple fingers.

Yielding; compliant; not obstinate. If punishment--makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning.

That makes plaint; as supple government.

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

To make compliant. A mother persisting till she had suppled the will of her daughter.

To become soft and pliant; as stones suppled into softness.