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The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.

Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness, n. -- Suit"a*bly, adv.

A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. See Suit, n., 5.

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

One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant. She hath been a suitor to me for her brother. Shak.

A female supplicant. Rowe.

A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.

A plain suit in which a player (or side) could, except for trumping, take tricks with all his remaining cards.

Unsuitable. [Obs.] -- In*suit`a*bil"i*ty, n. [Obs.]

Fig.: A crafty person; an intriguer. Jesuits' bark, Peruvian bark, or the bark of certain species of Cinchona; -- so called because its medicinal properties were first made known in Europe by Jesuit missionaries to South America. -- Jesuits' drops. See Friar's balsam, under Friar. -- Jesuits' nut, the European water…

Conforming to the principles of the Jesuits. Milton.

One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633.

Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods.

In a jesuitical manner.

The principles and practices of the Jesuits.

Government by Jesuits; also, the whole body of Jesuits in a country. [R.] C. Kingsley.

Jesuitism; subtle argument. [R.] Carlyle.

An action at law; a suit in equity or admiralty; any legal proceeding before a court for the enforcement of a claim.

A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a stopping of the suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff, either because he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground tha…