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.

The act of supplying; supplial.

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.

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

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

To serve instead of; to take the place of.

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 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.

Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.