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A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair.

To suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things. It becomes me so to speak of so excellent a poet. Dryden. I have known persons so anxious to have their dress become them, as…

Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray.

A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling.

To be suitable to; to suit; to become. That name best befits thee. Milton.

Suitable; proper; becoming; fitting.

In a befitting manner; suitably.

Under the cognizance or jurisdiction of. If a suit be begun before an archdeacon. Ayliffe.

In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9.

To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due. Chaucer.

To be suitable for; to be due to. Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age. Heb. v. 14. No blame belongs to thee. Shak.

: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit. A duty well beseeming the preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God Hocker.

Becoming; suitable. [Archaic] -- Be*seem"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seem"ing*ness, n.

Fit; suitable; becoming. [Archaic] In beseemly order sitten there. Shenstone.

To suit; to fit; to become. [Obs.]

Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cloth; the best abilities. When he is best, he is a little worse than a man. Shak. Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight. Milton.

costs, a statement of the items which form the total amount of the costs of a party to a suit or action. -- Bill of credit. (a) Within the constitution of the United States, a paper issued by a State, on the mere faith and credit of the State, and designed to circulate as money. No State shall "emit bills of credit."…

r; as, a cloth has a good black. Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night. Shak.

Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue. [Colloq.]

A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait. Or yellow bobs, turned up before the plow, Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enow. Lauson.