Suit \Suit\, n. [OE. suite, F. suite, OF. suite, sieute, fr. suivre to follow, OF. sivre; perhaps influenced by L. secta. See Sue to follow, and cf. Sect, Suite.]

1. The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit. [Obs.]

2. 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.

Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. --Spenser.

3. The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.

Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. --Pope.

4. (Law) 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.

I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino. --Shak.

In England the several suits, or remedial instruments of justice, are distinguished into three kinds -- actions personal, real, and mixed. --Blackstone.

5. 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[=e]t.

6. 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[=e]t.

7. 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. ``Two rogues in buckram suits.'' --Shak.

8. (Playing Cards) 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.

To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. --Cowper.

9. Regular order; succession. [Obs.]

Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. --Bacon.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Suit \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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Suit \Suit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suited; p. pr. & vb. n. Suiting.]

1. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word. --Shak.

2. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.

Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. --Dryden.

Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits song of piety and thee. --Prior.

3. To dress; to clothe. [Obs.]

So went he suited to his watery tomb. --Shak.

4. To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Possessory \Pos*sess"o*ry\, a. [L. possessorius: cf. F. possessoire.]

Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord.

Possessory action or suit (Law), an action to regain or obtain possession of something. See under Petitory.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)