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Supply
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(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.
(2):
(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.
(3):
(n.) That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
(4):
(n.) Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.
(5):
(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.
(6):
(v. t.) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
(7):
(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.
(8):
(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.
(9):
(a.) Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
(10):
(n.) The act of supplying; supplial.
(11):
(v. t.) To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Supply'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/supply.html. 1828.
