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Him all repute 
For his advice in handsoming a suit-. 
To judge of lace, pink, panes, print, cut, and plait, 
Of all the court to have the best conceit. Donne m 
[From To sue.'] A petition; an address of entreaty. 
She gallops o’er a courtier’s nose; 
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit. Shalcspeare. 
Many shall make suit unto thee. Job. —Courtship. 
He that hath the steerage of my course, 
Direct my suit. Shalcspeare. 
In Spenser it seems to signify pursuit; prosecution.—A 
keeper, whiche I knewe, [was] requryed to folow a sute with 
hys hounde after one that hadde stolen a decree. Abp. 
Cranmer. 
High amongst all knights hast hung thy shield, 
Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shoone, 
And wash thy hands from guilt of bloody field. Spenser. 
[In Law.] Suit is sometimes put, for the instance of a 
cause, and sometimes for the cause itself deduced in judg¬ 
ment. Ayliffe. —All that had any suits in law came unto them. 
Susanna. —John Bull was flattered by the lawyers that hiss;/// 
would not last above a year, and that before that time he 
would be in quiet possession of his business. Arbuthnot. 
—[In Law also, from the old Fr. suit, “1’obligation de 
suivre les plaids de son seigneur. Les Anglois se servent en¬ 
core de ce mot depuis Guillaume le Batard. 960.” La- 
combe.] Suit of court; suit-service; attendance of tenants 
at the court of their lord. 
Then found he many missing of his crew, 
Which wont doe suit and service to his might. Spenser. 
SUIT Covenant, s. [In Law.] Is where the ances¬ 
tor of one man covenanted with the ancestor of another to 
sue at his court. Dailey. 
SUIT Court, s. [In Law.] The court in which tenants owe 
attendance to their lord. Bailey. See the last sense of Suit. 
SUIT Service, s. [In Law.] Attendance which te¬ 
nants owe to the court of their lord. Bailey. See the last 
sense of Suit. 
To SUIT, v. a. To fit; to adapt to something else—■ 
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with 
this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of 
nature. Shalcspeare. —To be fitted to ; to become. 
Compute the gains of his ungovern’d zeal. 
Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. Dryden. 
To dress; to clothe. 
Be better suited ; 
These weeds are memories of those worser hours. 
Shalcspeare. 
To SUIT, v.n. To agree; to accord. Dryden uses it 
both with to and with. 
The one intense, the other still remiss. 
Cannot well suit with either; but soon prove 
Tedious alike Milton. 
The place itself was suiting to his care. 
Uncouth and savage as the cruel fair. Dryden. 
SUITABLE, adj. Fitting; according with; agree¬ 
able to; with to. — fo solemn acts of royalty and 
justice, their suitable ornaments are a beauty; are they only 
in religion a stain ? Hooker. 
SUITABLENESS, s. Fitness; agreeableness. — With 
ordinary minds, it is the suitableness, not the evidence 
of a truth that makes it to be yielded to; and it is seldom 
that any thing practically convinces a man that does not please 
him first. South. 
SUITABLY, adv. Agreeably; according fo.—Whoso¬ 
ever speaks upon an occasion may take any text suitable 
thereto; and ought to speak suitably to that text. South. 
SUITE, s. [Fr.] Order, series; regular order.—Every five- 
and-thirty years the same kind and suite of weather come 
about again; as great frost, great wet, great droughts, warm 
winters, summers with little heat; and they call it the prime. 
Bacon. —Retinue; company.—Plexirtus’s ill-led life, and 
worse-gotten honour, should have tumbled together to de- 
struc tion, had there not come in Tydeus and Telenor, with 
fifty in their suite to his defence. Sydney. 
SUITER, or Sui'tor, s. One that sues; a petitioner, 
a supplicant. 
She hath been a suitor to me for her brother. 
Cut off by course of justice. Shalcspeare'. 
My piteous soul began the wretchedness 
Of suitors at court to mourn. Donne. 
A wooer; one who coqrts a mistress. 
By many suitors sought, she mocks their pains. 
And still her vow’d virginity maintains. Dryden. 
SUITRESS, s. A female supplicant. 
’Twere pity 
That could refuse a boon to such a suitress ; 
Y’ have got a noble friend to be your advocate. Rowe. 
SUK EL HARF, a town of Yemen, in Arabia; 28 miles 
south-south-east of Saade. 
SUKANA, or Sukna, a village of the Syrian desert, near 
which is a warm sulphurous spriug ; 140 miles south-south¬ 
east of Aleppo. 
SUKERRABA, a town of Yemen, in Arabia; 4 miles 
south-south east of Otuma. 
SUKI, a town of Anatolia, in Asiatic Turkey, governed 
by an Aga; 12 miles north-north-east of Milets. 
SUKOTYRO, in Zoology, a genus of the class and order 
Mammalia Bruta. Horn on each side near the eyes.’ There 
is only one species:— 
Sukotyro Indicus.—This species has an upright mane, 
which is short, narrow, reaching from the top of the head to 
the rump. This animal is described by Dr. Shaw. “This,” 
according to Niewhoff, its only describer, and who has figured 
it in his Travels to the East Indies, “is a quadruped of a very 
singular shape. Its size is that of a large ox; the snout like 
that of a hog ; the ears long and rough, and the tail thick and 
bushy; the eyes are placed upright in the head, quite dif¬ 
ferently from those of other quadrupeds. On each side the 
head, next to the eyes, stand the horns, or rather the teeth, 
not quite so thick as those of an elephant. This animal feeds 
on herbage, and is seldom taken. It is a native of Java, and 
is called by the Chinese Sukotyro.” Niewhoff was a Dutch 
traveller, who visited the East Indies about the year 1563, 
and continued his peregrinations for several years. 
SUKSUNSK, a large village of the east of European Rus¬ 
sia, in the government of Perm, circle of Krasnu-fimsk, on 
the borders of Asia. It has 1800 inhabitants, and near it 
are large iron-works. 
SULAU, or Zulauf, a small town of Prussian Silesia; 
27 miles north of Breslau, and 7 west-south-west of Militsch. 
Population 1200. 
SULBY, a hamlet of England, in Northamptonshire; 6 
miles south-west of Market Harborough. 
SU'LCATED, adj. [ sulcus, Lat.] Furrowed.—All are 
much chopped and sulcated by having lain exposed on the 
top of the clay to the weather, and to the erosion of the 
vitriolic matter mixed amongst the clay. Woodward. 
SULETI. * See Sueti. 
SULGRAVE, a parish of England, in Northamptonshire. 
Near it is Barrow hill, on which is a tumulus, from whence 
may be seen nine counties, namely, Northampton, Warwick, 
Worcester, Oxford, Gloucester, Berks, Bucks, Bedford and 
Hertfordshires, and in very clear weather part of Hampshire 
and Wiltshire. Population 437 ; 6 miles north-by-west of 
Brackley. 
SULHAM, a parish of England, in Berkshire; 5 miles, 
west-north-west of Reading. 
SULHAMPSTEAD, Abbots, and SULHAMPSTEAD, 
Bannister, two united parishes of England, in Berkshire; 
5 miles south-west-by-west of Reading. 
SULI, Souli, or Suixi, a district of European Turkey, 
in Albania, formerly called Cassiopoea. It lies to the north 
of Porto Phanari, nearly 40 miles trom Joannina, and about 
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