[f. SUPPER sb.1]
1. trans. a. To give supper to, provide with supper; to entertain at supper; = SUP v.2 3 c.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., I. 108. Then did I supper my selfe vpon my bread.
1715. W. Shrigley, in J. Byrom’s Jrnl. & Lit. Rem. (Chetham Soc.), I. 29. We intend to dinner him and supper him round, and by degrees make him our own.
1814. Scott, Wav., lxiv. Winna ye be suppered like princes?
1839. Hood, Ode to St. Swithin, 74. They wish you on your own mud porridge supper’d.
1868. Pall Mall Gaz., 23 April, 11/1. They were ‘suppered’ under the presidency of Mr. Bailie Shearer on the Friday night.
b. To give (horses, cattle, etc.) their evening feed and bed them down for the night; also with up: cf. SUP v.2 3 a. Also fig. to give (a person) as much as he cares to have of something. Chiefly Sc. and north. dial.
1816. Scott, Old Mort., xxxvii. I ken weel what belangs to suppering a horse. Ibid., xxxviii. The horse was properly suppered up. Ibid. (1816), Bl. Dwarf, xvii. A bonny breakfast the loons gae me the ither morning, and him at the bottom on’t; and trow ye I wasna ready to supper him up?
1877. J. Hatton, Bitter Sweets, II. ii. 21–2. Harkaway had been duly ‘suppered up.’
1888. G. Macdonald, Elect Lady, 133. Dawtie found Andrew in the stable, suppering his horses.
c. Of food: To serve for the supper of: = SUP v.2 3 b.
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, xxx. Walter Cuming of Guiyock, wha hadna as muckle o’ him left thegither as would supper a messan-dog.
2. intr. To take one’s supper; to sup.
1691. Meeke, Diary, 27 Aug. (1874), 43. This night we cut down all our corn, and many persons suppered here.
1839. Haliburton, Letter-bag Gt. West., i. 10. [I] Tea’d, suppered, champagned, tidied myself for bed, and I fear—snored.
1891. ‘Annie Thomas,’ Roll of Honor, III. xxviii. 248. She has been suppering without intermission since Archie left her.
