suine

pl. [Mod. Lat. su(s); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ince.] [SUIDE.J *su-ing, s . [ Fr.suer =to sweat; Lat. sudo.] The proce of soaking through anything. "Note the percolation or suing of the verjuice through the wood; for verjuice of itself would never have pa ed through the wood."- Bacon : Nat . Hist ., § 79. *sū-ing, pr . par . or a. [SUE.] *su-Ing-lý, *su-yng-ly, adv. [Eng. suing, a.; -ly .] Following, in succe ion, after. "My mynde & my fle h both haue ioyed in to liuing God, and for this the prophete saith here suyngly , my reynes or kidneis, hath chiden me vnto the night."- Sir T. More: Works, p. 20. su-Int, s . (Fr.) The natural grease of wool. It consists of insoluble saponaceous matter, together with a soluble salt containing from 15 to 33 per cent. of potash. *sü'-Işm, s . [SUIST.] Selfishne . *su-Ist, s . [Lat. suus one's own.] One who seeks to gratify himself; a selfish person; an egotist. "A man with more liberty might be debtor to the Jews of Malta, than owe for curtesies to this schismatical suist, that baits with le er favours to angle for greater."-R. Whitlock: Grand Schismatic, p. 369. süit, *suite, *sute, s . [French suite =a chase, a suit, a train of attendants, from Lat. sect a a following, a sect (q. v.); in Low Lat. extended to mean a suit-at-law, a series, a suit of clothes, ., from Lat. sequor =to follow.] I. Ordinary Language : *1. The act of following; pursuit, chase, as of game, . *2. Consecution, succe ion, series. "Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes about again."- Bacon . 3. The act of suing; a seeking for something by petition or application; petition; addre of entreaty; request, prayer. "Many shall make suit unto thee." Job xi. 9. 4. A petition made to one of exalted position or authority, as a monarch or great prince. "I can but be thy guide, sweet maid, With Scotland's king thy suit to aid." Scott: Lady of the Lake, vi. 25. 5. Amorous solicitation; courtship, wooing; an attempt to win a woman in marriage. "Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, xix. 164. 6. The object of one's request, petition, or seeking; that which is sought or begged for; request, prayer. "Thou hast obtained thy suit." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , ii. 2. 7. A set, a number of things used together, and in a degree nece ary to be united in order to serve their purpose; as, a suit of armor, a suit of sails for a ship, .; especially used absolutely for a set of clothes; dre , apparel. "He hath his chaunge of suites , yea, he spareth not to goe in his silkes and veluet."- Wilson : Art of Rhetor i que, p. 94. 8. Things which follow in a series or succe ion; a set of things of the same kind or stamp; the collective number of individuals composing a series; as, a suit (more generally a suite ) of rooms. 9. Specifically, one of the four sets (of thirteen cards each) which compose a pack. "To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences." Cowper: Task, i. 475. *10. Kind, cla , sort, description. "The tapes of hire white volupere Were of the same suit of hire colere." Chaucer: C. Т. , 3,241. suite (3) The retinue, chattels, offspring, and appurtenances of a villein. 2. Civil Law : (1) An action or proce for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court of justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a suit in Chancery. When the remedy is sought in a court of law, the term suit is synonymous with action , but when proceedings are taken in a court of equity the term suit alone is used. The term is also applied in England to proceedings in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty courts. "Of a strange nature is the suit you follow." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, iv. 1. *(2) The witne es or followers of the plaintiff in an action at law. (1) Out of suits : No more in service and attendance on; at odds with. (2) To follow suit : [FOLLOW, (2).] "Wear this for me; one out of suits with fortune, That would give more, but that her hand lacks means." Shakesp.: As You Like It, i. 2. *suit-broker, s. One who made a regular trade of obtaining favors for court petitioners. *suit-court, s. [SUIT, s., II. 1 (1).] *suit-covenant, s. Law : A covenant by the ancestor of one man with the ancestor of another to sue at his court. ( Bailey .) *suit-like, *sute-like, a. Suitable, adapted. "Then she put her into man's apparel, and gave her all things suit- like to the same, and laid her upon a mattre all alone without light or candle."- North : Plutarch. p. 40. *suit-service, s. [SUIT, s., II. 1 (2).] sūit, v. t. & i. [SUIT, 8.] A. Transitive : 1. To adapt, to accommodate; to fit or make suit able. " Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature."-Shakesp.: Hamlet, iii. 2. 2. To be adapted or suitable to; to become. "Such furniture as suits the greatne of his person." Shakesp.: Henry VIII ., ii. 1. 3. To fit; to be adapted to. 4. To be agreeing to; to fall in with; to please; to be convenient or agreeable to; as, to suit one's tastes. *5. To dre , to clothe. "It is the use for Tyrian maids to wear, Their bow and quiver in this modest sort, And suit themselves in purple for the nonce." Marlowe: Dido, Queen of Carthage , i. 1. B. In trans.: To agree, to accord, to match, to correspond, to tally. (Often followed by to or with .) "Ill with King James' mood that day, Suited gay feast and minstrel lay."