Word Meanings - SUPPLYANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. Shak.

Related words: (words related to SUPPLYANT)

• AIDANCE
  Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.
• AIDFUL
  Helpful. Bp. Hall.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 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
• AID
  A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan. (more info) 1. Help; succor; assistance; relief. An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid. Hallam. 2. The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper;
• AID-MAJOR
  The adjutant of a regiment.
• AIDLESS
  Helpless; without aid. Milton.
• SUPPLYANT
  Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. Shak.
• AID-DE-CAMP
  An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.
• SUPPLETORY
  That which is to supply what is wanted. Invent suppletories to excuse an evil man. Jer. Taylor.
• AUXILIARY
  Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. Auxiliary scales , the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under Attendant, a. -- Auxiliary verbs . See Auxiliary, n., 3.
• AIDER
  One who, or that which, aids.
• AIDANT
  Helping; helpful; supplying aid. Shak.
• HANDMAID; HANDMAIDEN
  A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
• SPAID
  See SPADE
• DAYMAID
  A dairymaid.
• SAID
  imp. & p. p. of Say.
• MERMAID
  A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish. Note: Chaucer uses this word as equivalent to the siren of the ancients. Mermaid fish
• FORESAID
  Mentioned before; aforesaid.
• WAID
  Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down. Tusser.
• HAIDUCK
  Formerly, a mercenary foot soldier in Hungary, now, a halberdier of a Hungarian noble, or an attendant in German or
• MAIDENLINESS
  The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.
• RAID
  1. A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray. Marauding chief! his sole delight. The moonlight raid, the morning fight. Sir W. Scott. There are permanent
• BRAID
  and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. breg, D. breiden to knit, OS. 1. To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton. 2. To mingle, or to bring
• HAIDINGERITE
  A mineral consisting of the arseniate of lime; -- so named in honor of W. Haidinger, of Vienna.
• RESUPPLY
  To supply again.
• STAIDNESS
  The quality or state of being staid; seriousness; steadiness; sedateness; regularity; -- the opposite of wildness, or Ant: levity. If sometimes he appears too gray, yet a secret gracefulness of youth accompanies his writings, though the staidness
• MAIDEN
  fr. mago son, servant; akin to G. magd, mädchen, maid, OHG. magad, Icel. mögr son, Goth. magus boy, child, magaps virgin, and perh. to 1. An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
• STAID
  imp. & p. p. of Stay.