Hypertext Webster Gateway: "suppled"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Supple \Sup"ple\, v. t. [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.
--Spenser.

2. To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.

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

They should supple our stiff willfulness. --Barrow.

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