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an amount of something available for use

an amount of something available for use

To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house.

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.

To serve instead of; to take the place of.

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.

To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.

The act of supplying; supplial.

That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.

Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.

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.

An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.

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.

Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.

To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house.

To furnish with what is required; as, to supply a people with food; to furnish; as, to supply food for a people; to fill temporarily; as, to supply a pulpit; make up for; as, to supply a loss.

The act of providing or furnishing; that which is furnished; amount of any article on hand to meet a demand.

Supplying.

To fill up, esp. a deficiency: to add what is wanted: to furnish: to fill a vacant place: to serve instead of:-pa.t. and pa.p. supplied.

Act of supplying: that which is supplied or which supplies a wan amount of food or money provided (used generally in pl.).

Act of supplying; that which is supplied, or supplies a want; food, money, &c., supplied.

To fill up; furnish; provide.

To furnish with what is needed.

To give; afford.

To occupy temporarily.

The available aggregate of things needed or demanded.

An amount sufficient for a given use.

A temporary incumbent.

Moneys granted by the British Parliament for public expenditure.

The act of supplying; sufficiency of things for use or want; the necessary stores and provisions.

To fill up as any deficiency happens; to furnish what is wanted; to serve instead of; to bring or furnish; to fill vacant room or a vacancy.

To fill; to give or afford what is wanted; to serve instead of; to provide; to bring or furnish; to fill vacant room.

Sufficiency of things for use or want; the necessary stores and provisions; relief of want.

n. Sufficiency of things for use or want ; especially, the food, &c., which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men ; store-chiefly in the plural ;-also, the sums of money granted by Parliament to meet the public charges and expenditure for the current year.