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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Supply \Sup*ply"\, n.; pl. Supplies. 1. The act of supplying; supplial. --A. Tucker. [1913 Webster] 2. That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) Auxiliary troops or reenforcements. "My promised supply of horsemen." --Shak. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] Stated supply (Eccl.), a clergyman employed to supply a pulpit for a definite time, but not settled as a pastor. [U.S.] 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. [1913 Webster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

47 Moby Thesaurus words for "supplies": abundance, accumulation, amassment, backlog, budget, canned foods, collection, commissariat, commissary, cornucopia, cumulation, dehydrated foods, dump, food supply, fresh foods, frozen foods, groceries, grocery, heap, hoard, inventory, larder, mass, material, materials, materiel, merchandise, munitions, pile, plenitude, plenty, provender, provisionment, provisions, rations, repertoire, repertory, rick, stack, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, stores, supply on hand, treasure, treasury
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

SUPPLIES, Eng. Law. Extraordinary grants to the king by parliament, to supply the exigencies of the state. Jacob's Law Dict. h.t.