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Cloth, specifically cotton cloth, suitable for making shirts.

& Naval), a narrow strap worn on the shoulder of a commissioned officer, indicating, by a suitable device, the rank he holds in the service. See Illust. in App.

Suitable to be signed; requiring signature; as, a legal document signable by a particular person.

Being of reasonable or suitable size; as, sizable timber; sizable bulk. Arbuthnot.

Capable of being smoked; suitable or ready to be smoked; as, smokable tobacco.

A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metal, etc.

Suitable; befitting; proper. [Obs.] con.

Suitable. [Obs.] otgrave.

Suitableness; agreement. [Obs.] hak.

To afford suitable sustenance. [Obs.] Warner.

e of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly- mindedness. A pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality. South. If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality. Sir W. Raleigh. Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come.…

Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just. She's a most truimphant lady, if report be square to her. Shak.

To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves. Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides. Dryden.

A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop.

A kind of strong mild steel, suitable for structural shapes.

Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation; as, the studious shade. [Poetic] But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale. Milton. -- Stu"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Stu"di*ous*ness, n.

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

The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.

Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.

A sponge, or other suitable substance, attached to a long rod or handle, for cleaning the bore of a firearm.