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. i.) To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually followed by with or to.
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.
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(n.) Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
Suiting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suit
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