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A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened. [Written also matress.]

According to merit; suitably.

Suitable; fit; proper; appropriate; qualified; convenient. It was meet that we should make merry. Luke xv. 32. To be meet with, to be even with; to be equal to. [Obs.]

Fitly; suitably; properly.

Fitness; suitableness; propriety.

Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action. -- Mel`o*dra*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant. [Obs.] Gauden.

sne process, intermediate process; process intervening between the beginning and end of a suit, sometimes understood to be the whole process preceding the execution. Blackstone. Burrill. -- Mesne profits, profits of premises during the time the owner has been wrongfully kept out of the possession of his estate. Burril…

Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. "Methodical regularity." Addison.

Pertaining, or suited, to the audition of small sounds; fitted to assist hearing.

g upon a sensitive plate the magnified image of an object formed by a microscope or other suitable combination of lenses.

A tune or air to regulate the movements of the dance so called; a movement in suites, sonatas, symphonies, etc., having the dance form, and commonly in 3-4, sometimes 3-8, measure.

A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant.

To adjust wrongly of unsuitably; to throw of adjustment. I. Taylor.

Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.

Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.

To suit ill.

Arrayed, prepared, or furnished, unsuitably. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.

To match unsuitably.

To mate wrongly or unsuitably; as, to mismate gloves or shoes; a mismated couple.