Supple

a.	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. - Locke.
	3.	Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.
v. t.	1.	To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather. [imp. & p. p. Suppled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Suppling .] 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.
v. i.	1.	To become soft and pliant. The stones . . . Suppled into softness as they fell. - Dryden.

Verb	1.	supple - make pliant and flexible; "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use"
Adj.	1.	supple - gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease Synonyms: lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, sylphlike, svelte, slender
	2.	supple - (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; "a supple mind"; "a limber imagination" Synonyms: limber
	3.	supple - (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely Synonyms: limber

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