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

ends or accompanies in any character whatever, as a friend, companion, servant, agent, or suitor. "A train of attendants." Hallam.

A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law.

from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon. And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. Pope.

One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer. Addison.

To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor. The cunning workman never doth refuse The meanest tool that he may chance to use. Herbert.

To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away; as, to repulse a suitor or a proffer.

A professed lover or suitor; a gallant. [Obs.] In my time a servant was I one. Chaucer. Servant of servants, one debased to the lowest condition of servitude. -- Your humble servant, or Your obedient servant, phrases of civility often used in closing a letter. Our betters tell us they are our humble servants, but unde…

To be suitor to; to profess love to. [Obs.] To serve a lady in his beste wise. Chaucer.

ot and close; to render stifling. Sandys. His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other. Sir H. Wotton.

One who sues; a suitor.

can not speak in term. Chaucer. -- Term fee (Law) (a), a fee by the term, chargeable to a suitor, or by law fixed and taxable in the costs of a cause for each or any term it is in court. -- Terms of a proportion (Math.), the four members of which it is composed. -- To bring to terms, to compel (one) to agree, assent,…

One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor. "A thriving wooer." Gibber.