#637.  Provision. —­ N. provision, supply; grist, grist for the mill;
subvention &c. (aid) 707; resources &c. (means) 632; groceries, grocery.
     providing &c. v.; purveyance; reinforcement, reenforcement[obs3];
commissariat.
     provender &c. (food) 298; ensilage; viaticum.
     caterer, purveyor, commissary, quartermaster, manciple[obs3], feeder,
batman, victualer, grocer, comprador[Sp], restaurateur; jackal, pelican; sutler &c. (merchant) 797[obs3].
     grocery shop [U.  S.], grocery store. 
     V. provide; make provision, make due provision for; lay in, lay in a
stock, lay in a store.
     supply, suppeditate|; furnish; find, find one in; arm.
     cater, victual, provision, purvey, forage; beat up for; stock, stock
with; make good, replenish; fill, fill up; recruit, feed.
     have in store, have in reserve; keep, keep by one, keep on foot, keep
on hand; have to fall back upon; store &c. 636; provide against a rainy day &c. (economy) 817.

     #638.  Waste. —­ N. consumption, expenditure, exhaustion; dispersion
&c. 73; ebb; leakage &c. (exudation) 295; loss &c. 776; wear and tear; waste; prodigality &c. 818; misuse &c. 679; wasting &c. v.; rubbish &c. (useless) 645. mountain in labor. 
     V. spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust; impoverish;
spill, drain, empty; disperse &c. 73.
     cast away, fool away, muddle away, throw away, fling away, fritter
away; burn the candle at both ends, waste; squander &c. 818.
     “waste its sweetness on the desert air” [Gray]; cast one’s bread
upon the waters, cast pearls before swine; employ a steam engine to crack a nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a wheel; labor in vain &c. (useless) 645; cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve.
     leak &c. (run out) 295; run to waste; ebb; melt away, run dry, dry up. 
     Adj. wasted &c. v.; at a low ebb.
     wasteful &c. (prodigal) 818; penny wise and pound foolish. 
     Phr. magno conatu magnas nugas[Lat]; le jeu ne vaut pas la
chandelle[Fr]; “idly busy rolls their world away” [Goldsmith].

     #639.  Sufficiency. —­ N. sufficiency, adequacy, enough, withal,
satisfaction, competence; no less; quantum sufficit[Lat], Q.S..
     mediocrity &c. (average) 29.
     fill; fullness &c. (completeness) 52; plenitude, plenty; abundance;
copiousness &c.  Adj.; amplitude, galore, lots, profusion; full measure; “good measure pressed down and running, over.” luxuriance &c. (fertility) 168; affluence &c. (wealth) 803; fat of the land; “a land flowing with milk and honey”; cornucopia; horn of plenty, horn of Amalthaea; mine &c. (stock) 636.
     outpouring; flood &c. (great quantity) 31; tide &c. (river) 348;
repletion &c. (redundancy) 641; satiety &c. 869. 
     V. be sufficient &c.  Adj.; suffice, do, just do, satisfy, pass muster;
have enough &c. n.; eat. one’s fill, drink one’s