| Suit |
n. |
The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit. |
| Suit |
n. |
The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor. |
| Suit |
n. |
The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship. |
| Suit |
n. |
The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery. |
| Suit |
n. |
That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction;
often written suite, and pronounced sw/t. |
| Suit |
n. |
Things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.;
often written suite, and pronounced sw/t. |
| Suit |
n. |
A number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes. |
| Suit |
n. |
One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack;
each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, cubs, or diamonds. |
| Suit |
n. |
Regular order; succession. |
| Suit |
v. t. |
To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word. |
| Suit |
v. t. |
To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit. |
| Suit |
v. t. |
To dress; to clothe. |
| Suit |
v. t. |
To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste. |
| Suit |
v. i. |
To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond;
usually followed by with or to. |
| Suitability |
n. |
The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness. |
| Suitable |
a. |
Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. |
| Suite |
n. |
A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. See Suit, n., 5. |
| Suite |
n. |
A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals. See Suit, n., 6. |
| Suite |
n. |
One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect the suite form. |
| Suited |
imp. & p. p. |
of Suit |
| Suiting |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Suit |
| Suiting |
n. |
Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes. |
| Suitor |
n. |
One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant. |
| Suitor |
n. |
Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover. |
| Suitor |
n. |
One who sues or prosecutes a demand in court; a party to a suit, as a plaintiff, petitioner, etc. |
| Suitor |
n. |
One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like. |
| Suitress |
n. |
A female supplicant. |
