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4. 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.

The place itself was suiting to his care.

Dryden.

Give me not an office That suits with me so ill.

Addison.

Syn. -- To agree; accord; comport; tally; correspond; match; answer.

Suit`a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.

Suit"a*ble (?), a. Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness, n. -- Suit"a*bly, adv.

Syn. -- Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant; agreeable; competent; correspondent; compatible; consonant; congruous; consistent.

Suite (?), n. [F. See Suit, n.] 1. A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. See Suit, n., 5.

2. 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.

Mr. Barnard took one of the candles that stood upon the king's table, and lighted his majesty through a suite of rooms till they came to a private door into the library.

Boswell.

3. (Mus.) 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.

Suit"ing (?), n. Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.

Suit"or (?), n. 1. One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant.

She hath been a suitor to me for her brother.

Shak.

2. Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover. Sir P. Sidney.

3. (a) (Law) One who sues or prosecutes a demand in court; a party to a suit, as a plaintiff, petitioner, etc. (b) (O. Eng. Law) One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like.

Suit"ress (?), n. A female supplicant. Rowe.

||Su"ji (?), n. [Hind. s&?;f.] Indian wheat, granulated but not ||pulverized; a kind of semolina. [Written also soojee.]

||Su"la (?), n. [NL., fr. Icel. s&?;la the gannet. See Solan goose.] ||(Zoöl.) A genus of sea birds including the booby and the common ||gannet.

{ Sul"cate (?), Sul"ca*ted (?), } a. [L. sulcatus, p. p. of sulcare to furrow, fr. sulcus a furrow.] Scored with deep and regular furrows; furrowed or grooved; as, a sulcated stem.

Sul*ca"tion (?), n. A channel or furrow.

Sul"ci*form (?), a. Having the form of a sulcus; as, sulciform markings.

||Sul"cus (?), n.; pl. Sulci (#). [L., a furrow.] A furrow; a groove; a ||fissure.