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a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy. Clarendon. Weak we are, and can not shun pursuit. Shak.

A costume consisting of a plain belted waist and skirt of the same material.

A suit worn under another suit; a suit of underclothes.

Not to suit; to be unfit for. [Obs.] Quarles.

Fit; adapted; suitable. [Obs.] A many man, to ben an abbot able. Chaucer.

To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.

Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.

The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. "They accomodate their counsels to his inclination." Addison.

Suitably; fitly. [R.]

ersy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit. Blackstone. With one accord, with unanimity. They rushed with one accord into the theater. Acts xix. 29.

Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak.

Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings.

That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.

One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.

Fitted; suited. [Obs.] Swift.

The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. "General adaptability for every purpose." Farrar.

The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.

Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.

In a suitable manner. [R.] Prior.