Sup‐ply″, n.; pl.Supplies (�). 1. The act of supplying; supplial. A. Tucker.
2. That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want. Specifically: —
(a) Auxiliary troops or reënforcements. “My promised supply of horsemen.” Shak.
(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.
(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.
(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.
Stated supply(Eccl.), a clergyman employed to supply a pulpit for a definite time, but not settled as a pastor. — 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.