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‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; a dirty sponge, fr. &unr_; unwashed; 'a priv. + &unr_; to wash. ] (Zool.) A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Applied p. pr. & vb. n. Applying. ] [ OF. aplier, F. appliquer, fr. L. applicare to join, fix, or attach to; ad + plicare to fold, to twist together. See Applicant, Ply. ] 1. To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

He said, and the sword his throat applied. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet God at last
To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline. [ 1913 Webster ]

Apply thine heart unto instruction. Prov. xxiii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To direct or address. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sacred vows . . . applied to grisly Pluto. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively. [ 1913 Webster ]

I applied myself to him for help. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To busy; to keep at work; to ply. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She was skillful in applying his “humors.” Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To visit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And he applied each place so fast. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Applied chemistry. See under Chemistry. --
Applied mathematics. See under Mathematics. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To ply; to move. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I heard the sound of an oar applying swiftly through the water. T. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (to). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bishoplike; episcopal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of a bishop. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See comply, v. i. ] 1. To fulfill; to accomplish. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. L. complicare to fold up. See Ply. ] To infold; to embrace. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Seemed to comply,
Cloudlike, the daintie deitie. Herrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Complied p. pr. & vb. n. Complying. ] [ Perh. formed fr. compliment, influenced by ply, pliant, which are of different origin: cf. It. complire to compliment, finish, suit. See Compliment, Complete. ] 1. To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply,
Scandalous or forbidden in our law. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

They did servilely comply with the people in worshiping God by sensible images. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that complies against his will
Is of his own opinion still. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. pr. p. of comply. [ Narrower terms: compliant (vs. defiant) ]
Syn. -- obliging, yielding. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. [ R. ] Mrs. Trollope. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a crisp manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had deeply offended both his nobles and people. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

He sighed deeply in his spirit. Mark viii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Very; with a tendency to darkness of color. [ 1913 Webster ]

The deeply red juice of buckthorn berries. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned instrument. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. With profound skill; with art or intricacy; as, a deeply laid plot or intrigue. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimply pool. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having a thickness made up of four layers or strands; as, four-ply yarns. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. By hap, chance, luck, or accident; perhaps; it may be. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lest haply ye be found even to fight against God. Acts v. 39. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Implied p. pr. & vb. n. Implying. ] [ From the same source as employ. See Employ, Ply, and cf. Implicate, Apply. ] 1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. [ Obs. ] “His head in curls implied.” Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where a malicious act is proved, a malicious intention is implied. Bp. Sherlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a man employs a laborer to work for him, . . . the act of hiring implies an obligation and a promise that he shall pay him a reasonable reward for his services. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To refer, ascribe, or attribute. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Whence might this distaste arise? [ 1913 Webster ]

If [ from ] neither your perverse and peevish will.
To which I most imply it. J. Webster.

Syn. -- To involve; include; comprise; import; mean; denote; signify; betoken. See Involve. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Misapplied p. pr. & vb. n. Misapplying. ] To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Multiplied p. pr. & vb. n. Multiplying ] [ F. multiplier, L. multiplicare, fr. multiplex manifold. See Multitude, Complex. ] 1. To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience. Ames. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under Multiplication. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Multiplying gear (Mach.), gear for increasing speed. --
Multiplying lens. (Opt.) See under Lens. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become greater in number; to become numerous. [ 1913 Webster ]

When men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them. Gen. vi. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To increase in extent and influence; to spread. [ 1913 Webster ]

The word of God grew and multiplied. Acts xii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Neglecting or refusing to comply. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To multiply or increase too much; to repeat too often. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To ply to excess; to exert with too much vigor; to overwork. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To supply in excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An excessive supply; a supply in excess of demand. [ 1913 Webster ]

A general oversupply or excess of all commodities. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. panopli`a; pa^s, pa^n, all + "o`plon tool, implement, in pl., armor, arms.] 1. Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive armor. Milton. [1913 Webster]

We had need to take the Christian panoply, to put on the whole armor of God. Ray. [1913 Webster]

2. Hence: Any full set of elaborate attire, complete with accessories or accompanying paraphernalia; any elaborate special or ceremonial attire and equipment. [PJC]

3. Hence: Any impressive complete array; as, the full panoply of a presidential funeral. [PJC]

4. Hence: [Fig.:] Any complete array of devices used in an endeavor; as, to deploy the full panoply of writer's techniques. [PJC]

a. Pimpled. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Fully; roundly; plainly; without reserve. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Plied p. pr. & vb. n. Plying ] [ OE. plien, F. plier to fold, to bend, fr. L. plicare; akin to Gr. &unr_;, G. flechten. Cf. Apply, Complex, Display, Duplicity, Employ, Exploit, Implicate, Plait, Pliant, Flax. ] 1. To bend. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

As men may warm wax with handes plie. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink. [ 1913 Webster ]

And plies him with redoubled strokes Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

He plies the duke at morning and at night. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To employ diligently; to use steadily. [ 1913 Webster ]

Go ply thy needle; meddle not. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To practice or perform with diligence; to work at. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their bloody task, unwearied, still they ply. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To bend; to yield. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It would rather burst atwo than plye. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The willow plied, and gave way to the gust. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer plies between certain ports. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ere half these authors be read (which will soon be with plying hard and daily). Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was forced to ply in the streets as a porter. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

The heavy hammers and mallets plied. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) To work to windward; to beat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. pli, fr. plier. See Ply, v. ] 1. A fold; a plait; a turn or twist, as of a cord. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bent; turn; direction; bias. [ 1913 Webster ]

The late learners can not so well take the ply. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Boswell, and others of Goldsmith's contemporaries, . . . did not understand the secret plies of his character. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

The czar's mind had taken a strange ply, which it retained to the last. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Ply is used in composition to designate folds, or the number of webs interwoven; as, a three-ply carpet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, plies; specifically: (a) pl. A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross. (b) pl. See Pliers. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. & n. See Plight. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The members of a religious sect which first appeared at Plymouth, England, about 1830. They protest against sectarianism, and reject all official ministry or clergy. Also called Brethren, Christian Brethren, Plymouthists, etc. The Darbyites are a division of the Brethren. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. To a fourfold quantity; so as to be, or cause to be, quadruple; as, to be quadruply recompensed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To apply again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Replied p. pr. & vb. n. Replying. ] [ OE. replien, OF. replier, F. répliquer, fr. L. replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref. re- re- + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Replica. ] 1. To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer. [ 1913 Webster ]

O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Rom. ix. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To answer a defendant's plea. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To answer; respond; rejoin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To return for an answer. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lords, vouchsafe
To give me hearing what I shall reply. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Replies [ See Reply, v. i., and cf. Replica. ] That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Answer; rejoinder; response. -- Reply, Rejoinder, Answer. A reply is a distinct response to a formal question or attack in speech or writing. A rejoinder is a second reply (a reply to a reply) in a protracted discussion or controversy. The word answer is used in two senses, namely (1), in the most general sense of a mere response; as, the answer to a question; or (2), in the sense of a decisive and satisfactory confutation of an adversary's argument, as when we speak of a triumphant answer to the speech or accusations of an opponent. Here the noun corresponds to a frequent use of the verb, as when we say. “This will answer (i.e., fully meet) the end in view;” “It answers the purpose.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Replier. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To supply again. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having ripples; as, ripply water; hence, resembling the sound of rippling water; as, ripply laughter; a ripply cove. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rumpled. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Applying to or by one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a sharp manner, ; keenly; acutely. [ 1913 Webster ]

They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ They ] make that now good or evil, . . . which otherwise of itself were not simply the one or the other. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Simply the thing I am
Shall make me live. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Plainly; without art or subtlety. [ 1913 Webster ]

Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise
By simply meek. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Weakly; foolishly. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Supplied p. pr. & vb. n. Supplying ] [ For older supploy, F. suppléer, OF. also supployer, (assumed) LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to fill, akin to plenus full. See Plenty. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To serve instead of; to take the place of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burning ships the banished sun supply. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply
His absent beams, had lighted up the sky. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To furnish; provide; administer; minister; contribute; yield; accommodate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Supplies 1. The act of supplying; supplial. A. Tucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) Auxiliary troops or reenforcements. “My promised supply of horsemen.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies. [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stated supply (Eccl.), a clergyman employed to supply a pulpit for a definite time, but not settled as a pastor. [ U.S. ] --
Supply and demand. (Polit. Econ.) “Demand means the quantity of a given article which would be taken at a given price. Supply means the quantity of that article which could be had at that price.” F. A. Walker. [ 1913 Webster ]