Supplying definition

The more common palms are Cocos, Phoenix and Borassus, supplying cocoa-nut and toddy.

The idea of transmutation, in the country of its origin, had a philosophical basis, and was linked up with the Greek theories of matter there current; thus, by supplying a central philosophical principle, it to some extent unified and focussed chemical effort, which previously, so far as it existed at all, had been expended on acquiring empirical acquaintance with a mass of disconnected technical processes.

The English slave traders were at first altogether occupied in supplying the Spanish settlements.