(Zoöl.) the system of tubes and canals in sponges by means of which food and water are absorbed. See Illust. of Spongiæ, Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything, adverb_ Supplely_ in a supple manner, with suppleness, transitive verb_ To have as a necessary or desirable feature, To make up for (a deficiency, for example); compensate for, To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of, verb_ intransitive To act as a substitute, circulate or distribute or equip with, give something useful or necessary to, noun_ an amount of something available for use, uncountable The act of supplying, An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plura