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Chance; lot; destiny. [Obs.] By aventure, or sort, or cas [chance]. Chaucer. Let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector. Shak.

Capable of being sorted.

Suitable. [Obs.] otgrave.

Pertaining to a sort. [Obs.] Locke.

Suitableness; agreement. [Obs.] hak.

One who, or that which, sorts.

pl. of Sors.

The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.

The act or practice of drawing lots; divination by drawing lots. A woman infamous for sortileges and witcheries. Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to sortilege.

Sortilege. [R.] De Quincey.

The air sung by any of the principal characters in an opera on entering.

Selection or appointment by lot. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Assortiment. [Obs.]

ke kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods.

Selected; culled.

Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes.

To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become. [Obs.] Such men as may besort your age. Shak.

r husband. Milton. He single chose to live, and shunned to wed, Well pleased to want a consort of his bed. Dryden. The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere. Thakeray. The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort. Darwin.

Suitable for association or companionship. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.