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▪ I. suppling, vbl. n.|ˈsʌplɪŋ|
[f. supple v. + -ing1.]
The action of supple v.; making supple. a. in literal senses.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 87 b, Of Oyle, some part serueth for meate, and other for the sowpling of the bodie. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 221 The Butter..is most thin, liquid, moist and penetrating, whereby such a suppeling is procured, that their Cheeses do rather ripen than dry with long lying. 1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. vi. §5. 173 That Cavity or Glandule..containing an unctuous substance for the suppling of the Feathers. 1676Mace Musick's Mon. 56 That part..will ask good Suppleing with Water and Heat, before it will yield. 1720W. Gibson Diet. Horses x. (1731) 163 The suppling of the Joints [of a horse], which is generally first practised, is very reasonable. 1802C. James Milit. Dict., Siguette,..a sort of nose-band..which is put on the nose of a horse, to forward the suppling or breaking of him. 1889Baden-Powell Pigsticking 124 A few hours of quiet suppling and bending will amply repay the trouble.
b. in fig. senses.
1617R. Fenton Treat. Ch. Rome 64 It cureth by way of suppling, to teach them to be gracious Soveraignes, to establish their royal thrones by mercy. 1625Donne Serm. 3 Apr. 26 For the suppling of boysterous, and for the becalming of tempestuous humours. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. II. vi. §59 That quickening and suppling of the dull spirit that cannot be gained for it but by bathing it in blood. 1865Lowell Scotch the Snake Prose Wks. 1890 V. 245 We doubt if any substantial excellence is lost by this suppling of the intellectual faculties.
▪ II. suppling, ppl. a.|ˈsʌplɪŋ|
[f. supple v. + -ing2.]
That renders the skin or the joints of the body supple; also, softening, emollient.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 101 The rosin..of the popler is menged oft tymes with softenyng and souplyng emplasters. 1562Burnynge of Paules Ch. in Lond., Nothinge..does more ease the paines of the sicke bodye than these supplinge oiles. 1638Rawley tr. Bacon's Life & Death (1650) 64 Onely three Set Diets: The Opiate Diet, the Diet Malacissant, or Suppling; and the Diet Emaciant, & Renewing. 1639T. de Grey Compl. Horsem. 272 Mollifie the heeles of the horse with suppling things. 1648Herrick Hesper., To the King to cure Evill, All those suppling healing herbs and flowers. 1650Venner Via Recta, Baths of Bathe 356 The Crosse-bath is an excellent temperate soupling bath. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 422 By means of suppleing Oils, those Fibrillae are..lubricated, and relaxed. 1871Daily News 11 Apr. 6 Good marching..tells of weary but necessary hours over the goose step, of laborious and oft-repeated ‘suppling’ motions.
b. in fig. context or allusively.
1563Form Medit. in Liturg. Serv. Q. Eliz. (Parker Soc.) 505 Mollify..O Lord, our flinty hearts with the suppling moisture of thy Holy Spirit. 1595Southwell St. Peter's Compl. lxxx, Pour suppling showers upon my parchèd ground. 1632G. Herbert Priest to Temple xviii, Mollifying and suppling words. 1659W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida ii. 154 If ere thy sober Reason did submit To suppling Mirth. 1713C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 382 Employ my Hand, yet warm, to close the Wound, And with my suppling Tears disperse the anguish. 1727P. Walker Life R. Cameron in Biogr. Presbyt. (1827) I. 194 In the 1719, there was a softning, soupling, sweetning Oil, composed and made up by the cunning Art of carnal Wit, and State-policy. |