sue 
Our little Cupid hath mud lioery, 
Anil is no mori- in liin minority. 
/Ir. /i/i.-. Krloj-lli' (1013). 
It concern 'd them first to sue out thlr Liverie from the 
unjust wardship of his encroaching I'n-roKatin-. 
.I//'//////, Kikonoklastes, xi. 
To 8U6 out, to petition for and take out; apply for and 
obtain : as, to me out a writ in chancery ; to me out a par- 
don for a criminal. 
Thou :ut niv husband, no divorce in heaven 
Ha-; lit-cu M/'-/ '>"t hi-tMi-i-n us. 
fonl, IVrkin Warbeck, v. 8. 
Alnl now In- \v ol I 111 fo lo I.i mi lou :it 01 ii !-, iiiul M/.- "ill hi- 
]ianloii. /.' 1>. tlliu-kuniri', Ixirna Doone, xxxviii. 
II. iiitrniia. If. To follow; come after, either- 
;is ;i consequence or in pursuit. 
With Ijvulrs and other 1110 of liis anne men, 
He nut furth on the soile to Chethes the kyng. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.X 1. 821. 
\\ rtitti wel that we ... bane grauntyd ... to the 
citezens of the forstiyd cite the fruunches that ben guying 
to hauo to hem and to her eyers and succcssoui s for euer. 
Charter of Ijondon (Rich. II.), in Arnold's Chron., p. 28. 
The K\ iiL-r dide do make this dragon in all the haste he 
myght, like to the dragon that ttewde in the ayre. 
Merlin (K. E. T. *.\\. 57. 
2. To make entreaty ; rut rent; petition; plead: 
usually with fur. 
And as men here devoutly wolde writen holy Seyntes 
Lyfes and hero Myracles, and scuvn for hero Canonlza- 
ciouus, righto so don thei there, for hem that sleen hem 
self wilfully, and for love of here Ydole. 
Mamlcmtle, Travels, p. 17(1. 
To I'T-otous selfe to /-/'/ she thought it value, 
Who was Hi-- root and worker of her woe. 
Spenser, F. Q.., IV. xii. 29. 
The Kings of Poland and Sweden have sued to be their 
Protector. Ilowell, Letters, I. yl. 8. 
By adverse destiny constraint! to sue 
For counsel and redress, he sues to you. Pope, 
Much less shall mercy sue 
In vain that thou let innocence survive. 
Browning, King and Book, II. 108. 
3. To pay court, or pay one's addresses as a 
suitor or lover ; play the lover ; woo, or be a 
wooer. 
But, foolish l>y, what bootes thy service bace 
To her to whom the hevens doe serve and tew? 
Spenter, F. Q., III. y. 47. 
Well. Has she no suitors? . . . 
All. Such as sue and send, 
And send and sue again, but to no purpose. 
Massinger, New Way to Pay Old Debts, i. 1. 
4. To prosecute ; make legal claim ; seek for 
something in law: as, to sue for damages. 
Their fast, on the 17 of the fourth Moneth, . . . and 
from thence to the ninth day of the moneth following, are 
In ih li-n vnluckie dayes, in which echoole masters may not 
beat their schollers, nor any man will sue at the law. 
rini-hns. Pilgrimage, p. 211. 
6f. To issue; flow. 
Being rough-cast with odious sores to cover 
The deadly juice that from his brain doth sue. 
/. Beaumont, Psyche, ii. 167. 
To flue, labor, and travel, in Eng. marine insurance, 
to make due exertions and use necessary and proper 
means : used with reference to the preservation of insured 
property from loss or to its recovery. What is called the 
suing ami laboring clause in a policy usually provides that 
"in any case of loss or misfortune, it shall he lawful to 
theassured . . . to sue, labour, and travel tor, in.andabout 
the defence, safeguard, and recovery of " what is insured. 
These two words [sue and labor], the meaning of which 
is different, and not merely a redundant parallelism, take 
In the acts of the owner or assured, whether in asserting 
and following the rights of interests in danger, or work- 
ing and expending money for the benefit of those Inter- 
ests. ... In this clause two things are noticeable: that 
suing (which in this place is understood 'doing work,' 
and not simply 'suing at law'), labouring, and travelling 
are made lawful to certain persons acting In lieu of the 
insured, and that to such expenses of suing, etc., the un- 
derwriters agree to contribute their share. 
Hopkins, Law of Gen. Ay., pp. 386, 390. 
sue' 2 t. An old spelling of seic 1 , sew 3 , 2. 
suent, suently. See suanfl, suantly. 
suer (su'er), n. [< sue 1 + -er l ."\ If. One who 
follows. 2. A suitor. 
suertet, An old spelling of surety. 
suet (su'et), n. [Early mod. E. also sewet; < ME. 
xiii-t, sicete, < OF. it. .tui.t, suit'. F. suif= Pr. sex, 
sef = Sp. Pg. scbo = It. sevo, < L. sebum, sevum, 
tallow, suet, grease ; prob. akin to sapo, soap : 
see sebaceous, soap.] The fatty tissue about 
the loins and kidneys of certain animals, as the 
ox, the sheep, the goat, and the hart, harder and 
less fusible than that from other parts of the 
same animals. That of the ox and sheep is chiefly 
usr.l, and when melted out of its connective tissue forms 
tallow. Mutton suet is used as an ingredient in cerates, 
plasters, and ointments; beef suet, and also mutton suet, 
are used in cookery. The corresponding flaky fat of hogs 
furnishes leaf-lard. 
suety (su'et-i), <i. [< xurt + -y 1 .] Consisting 
of suet or resembling it : as, a suety substance. 
Ini/i. liict. 
suf-. Sew snl>-. 
6043 
guff 1 (uf), n. See 
BUff- (suf), M. See 
suffect (su-fekt'), '' t. [< L. Hiiffer.tiix, pp. nf 
ninlii'i-rr, put into, afford, furnish, be sufficient : 
*'/. | 'I'n >iili>titiite. [Kare.] 
The question was nf suffecting Amadous, Duke of Savoy, 
a married man, in the room of Eugenius. 
Up. Hall, Honour of Married Clergy, ' I 24. 
suffect (su-fekf), a. [< L. suffcctus, pp. of x/- 
ficcre, put into: see suffect, t'.] Substituted; 
put in place of another. [Kare.] 
The date of the miffed consulship of Silius the younger 
Is not known. Alkeiurmn, Oct. 28, 1882, p. 669. 
suffer (sufer), r. [< ME. suffre n. w/.W'/vn, < OF. 
souffrir, Knffrir, xnrffrir, surffrer, F. souffrir = 
Sp. sufrir = Pg. soffrer = It. sofferire, soffrire, < 
I.. *itfftrr<; carry or put under, hold up, bear, 
support, undergo, endure, suffer, < sub, under, 
+ Jerre = E. bear 1 .] I. trans. 1. To endure; 
support bravely or unflinchingly ; sustain; bear 
up under. 
If she be riche and of heigh parage, 
Thanne seistow it is a tormentrle 
To offren hire (a wife's) pride and hire malencolle. 
Chaucer, Pro], to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 252. 
Our spirit and strength entire, 
Strongly to sufer and support our pains. 
Milton, P. L., L 147. 
2. To be affected by ; undergo ; be acted on or 
influenced by; sustain; pass through. 
Nothing of him that doth fade 
But doth suffer a sea-change 
Into something rich and strange. 
Shale., Tempest, L 2. 400. 
When all that seems shall suffer shock. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxxxl. 
3. To feel or bear (what is painful, disagree- 
able, or distressing) ; submit to with distress 
or grief; undergo: as, to suffer acute bodily 
pain ; to suffer grief of mind. 
At the day of Doom 4 Aungelcs, with 4 Trompes, 
schulle blowen and reysen alle men that hadden suffred 
Dethe sithe that the World was formed, from Dethe to 
Lyve. Hamtemllr, Travels, p. 114. 
A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment. 
Prov. ill. 18. 
It is said all martyrdoms looked mean when they were 
suffered. Emerson, Experience. 
Each had suffer'd some exceeding wrong. 
Tennyson, Geralnt 
4. To refrain from hindering; allow; permit; 
tolerate. 
I prayed Pic-res to pulle adown an apple, and he wolde, 
And mffre me to assaye what sauoure it hadde. 
Piers Plowman (R\ xvl. 74. 
Sufer the little children to come unto me, and forbid 
them not. Mark x. 14. 
Heaven will not suffer honest men to perish. 
Fletcher (and Stassinger'ty, Lovers' Progress, Ii. 4. 
My Lord Sandwich . . . suffers his beard to grow on his 
upper lip more than usual. Pepys, Diary, II. 347. 
They live only as pardoned men ; and how pitiful is 
the condition of being only suffered. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 438. 
5f. To tolerate abstention from. 
Master More ... by no meanes would admit of any 
diuision, nor suffer his men from finishing their fortifica- 
tions. Quoted in Capt. John Smith's True Travels, II. 130. 
= 8yn. 2. To feel, bear, experience, go through. 4. Al- 
low, Permit, Consent to, etc. See attmci. 
II. intrans. If. To have endurance ; bear 
evils bravely. 
Now looke that atempree be thy brydel, 
And for the beste ay suffre to the tide. 
Chaucer, Troilus, L 964. 
2. To feel or undergo pain of body or mind ; 
bear what is distressing or inconvenient. 
If I be false. 
Send me to suffer In those punishments 
You speak of ; kill me ! 
llean. and Fl., Phllaster, Hi. 1. 
Raw meat, unless in very small bits, and large pieces 
of albumen, <Sc., . . . Injure the leaves, which seem to 
suffer, like animals, from a surfeit. 
Dunlin. Insectiv. Plants, p. 130. 
3. To be injured; sustain loss or damage. 
The kingdom's honour suffers in this cruelty. 
Fletcher, Wife for a Month, ii. 1. 
Thus the English prosper every where, and the French 
suffer. Baiter, Chronicles, p. 122. 
4. To undergo punishment ; especially, to be 
put to death. 
The father was first condemned to sufer upon a day 
appointed, and the son afterwards the day following. 
Clarendon. 
5. To allow; permit. 
Remayning as diners languages and dialects will suffer, 
almost the same. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 437. 
still dost thon *nfrr. heaven ! will no flame, 
No heat of sin, make thy just wrath to boil 1 
B. Jonton, Sejanus, iv. 5. 
6f. To wait ; hold out. 
sufferer 
Marganors hem svlde, and buddt; hem mffre and a-bide 
while thel myght for tu socotlr tht-lre in-iilc. 
Merlin (I.. I'.. T. s.), II. 165. 
sufferable (suf'er-a-bl), n. [< ME. miffrablc, < 
ill'. M///W /-//////, < xituffrir, sufiVt /-and 
-ulili'.] 1. Capable of bcin^ snITi red. endured, 
tolerated, or permitted; ulluwulili . 
It shal be more suffrage to the loond of men of Sodom 
and of Gommor in the dai of iugement than to thllke 
,,ti, H'ytV, Mat. x. 16. 
Yi' have a great loss; 
But bear it patiently : yet, to say truth, 
In justice 'tis not sufferable. 
Fletcher, Valcntinian, Iv. 4. 
I lielieve it 's very sufferable; the pain is not so exquisite 
but that you may bear It a little I 
Steele, Conscious Lovers, III. 1. 
2t. Capable of suffering or enduring with pa- 
tience; tolerant; patient. 
It Is fair to have a wyf In pees: 
One of us two moste bowen, doutelees ; 
And Kith a man is more resonable 
Than womman Is, ye moste been ntffrabte. 
Chaucer, 1'rol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 442. 
The people are thus inclined, religious, franke, amor- 
ous, ireful, sufferable of Inflnit paines. 
Stanihurst, Ireland, viil. (Hollnsbed's Chron., I.). 
sufferableness (suf'er-a-bl-nes), w. The st;it<- 
or character of being sufferable or endurable ; 
tolorableness. 
sutferably (suf'er-a-bli), adv. In a sufferable 
manner ; tolerably. Addison, tr. of Claudian, 
in Anc. Medals, ii. 
sufferance (suf'er-ans), n. [Early mod. E. also 
sufferauncc; < 'M.E.suffrance,soi'frans,< OF.souf- 
france, F. nouffrance = Pr. sufrensa, sufransa = 
It. sofferenza,< L. sufferetitia, endurance, tolera- 
tion, < suffercn(t-)s, ppr. of svffcrre, endure, suf- 
fer: see suffer.] 1. The state of suffering; the 
bearing ofpain or other evil ; endurance ; suf- 
fering; misery. 
He must not only die the death, 
But thy unkindneas shall the death draw out 
To lingering sufferance. Shale., M. for -\l., ii. 4. 167. 
Sufferance 
Of former trials hath too strongly ann'd me. 
Ford, Fancies, Iv. 1. 
All praise be to my Maker given ! 
Long sufferance Is one path to heaven. 
Scott, Rokeby, i v. 24. 
2f. Damage; loss; injury. 
A grievous wreck and sufferance 
On most part of their fleet. 
Shot., Othello, ii. 1. 28. 
3. Submission under difficult or oppressive cir- 
* cumstances; patient endurance ; patience. 
Therfore hath this wise worthy knyght, 
To lyve in ese, suffrance hire liihiylit. 
Chaucer, Franklin's Tale, L 60. 
Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, 
For sufferance la the badge of all our tribe. 
SAa*., M. of V., I. 3. 111. 
Sir, I have learn'd a prisoner's sufferance, 
And will obey. 
Beau, and Fl., King and No King, i. 1. 
4. Consent by not forbidding or hindering; tol- 
eration; allowance; permission; leave. 
And, sere, syn he so is be soueransot goddis, 
Vs may falle here by fortune a fulfalre gifte, 
That shuld lelly bu la-lit, aa me leue thlnke. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 8154. 
Either dispysest thou the riches of his goodnesse, pa- 
cyence, and long svfferaunce ! Bible of 1661, Rom. II. 4. 
Whose freedom is by suf ranee, and at will 
Of a superior, he Is never free. 
Cooper, Task, v. 363. 
5. In customs, a permission granted for the ship- 
ment of certain goods Bill of sufferance. See 
waa. Estate by sufferance or at sufferance, in lav, 
the interest in land recognized by the law in a person who 
came into possession by lawful right but is keeping it af- 
ter the title has ceased, without positive leave of t lu- owner. 
Such person Is called a tenant at sufferance. On suffer- 
ance, by passive allowance, permission, or consent ; with- 
out being actively interfered with or prevented : without 
being positively forbidden : often with a sense of blame or 
disparagement. Sufferance Wharf, a wharf on which 
goods may be landed before any duty is paid. Such 
wharves are appointed by the commissioners of the cus- 
toms. 
sufferantt (suf'er-ant), a. and n. [< ME. */- 
fraunt, < OF. souffrant, F. smiffrant = Sp. sv- 
friente = It. sofferente, < L. gufferen(t-\, ppr. of 
sufferre, endure, suffer : see .wfTcT.] I. n. Tol- 
erant; enduring; patient. 
Pure suffraunt was her wit. 
Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 1010. 
And thou a god so ruferant and remisse. 
lleywood. Dialogues (Works, ed. Pearson (1S74), VI. 167). 
H. n. One who is patient and enduring. 
Forth!, sle with reson al this bete, 
Men seyn the ftiffraunt overcomth, parde. 
Chaucer, Troilus, Iv. 1584. 
sufferer (suf'er-er), w. [< suffer + -er 1 .] 1. 
One who suffers ; a person who endures or un- 
