supple
Webster 1828
SUP'PLE, adjective 1. Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as supple joints; supple fingers.2. Yielding; compliant; not obstinate.If punishment--makes not the will supple it hardens the offender.3. Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning.4. That makes plaint; as supple government.SUP'PLE, verb transitive To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather.1. To make compliant.A mother persisting till she had suppled the will of her daughter.SUP'PLE, verb intransitive To become soft and pliant; as stones suppled into softness