(sə·plī′) v. ·plied, ·ply·ing v.t.
1. To give or furnish (something needful or desirable): to supply milk for a city.
2. To furnish with what is needed: to supply an army with ammunition.
3. To provide for adequately; satisfy: to supply a demand.
4. To make up for; make good or compensate for, as a loss or deficiency.
5. To fill (the place of another); also, to fill (an office, etc.) or occupy (a pulpit) as a substitute.
—v.i.
6. To take the place of another temporarily. See synonyms under ACCOMMODATE, GIVE, PROVIDE.
—noun plural ·plies
1. That which is or can be supplied; the available aggregate of things needed or demanded.
2. The amount of a commodity offered at a given price or available for meeting a demand.
3. Accumulated stores reserved for distribution, as for an army or a fleet: usually in the plural: He was cut off from his base of supplies.
4. A grant of money to the crown or for the public service; appropriation: usually in the plural.
5. An amount sufficient for a given use; store or quantity on hand.
6. A substitute or temporary incumbent.
7. Obs. Reinforcements.
8. The act of supplying. See synonyms under STOCK. [<OF sopleer, soupleier <L supplere <sub- up from under + ple-, root of plenus full]
—sup·pli′er noun

(sup′lē) adverb
In a supple manner; supplely. [<SUPPLE]