1. [n]  (law) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the family brought suit against the landlord"
2. [n]  a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color; "they buried him in his best suit"
3. [n]  playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color; "a flush is five cards in the same suit"; "in bridge you must follow suit"; "what suit is trumps?"
4. [n]  a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
5. [n]  a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "its was a brief and intense courtship"
6. [v]  accord or comport with
7. [v]  be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs"
8. [v]  enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This behavior doesn't suit you!"
9. [v]  be agreeable or acceptable; "This time suits me"

1. \Suit\, n. [OE. suite, F. suite, OF. suite, sieute, fr.
   suivre to follow, OF. sivre; perhaps influenced by L. secta.
   See {Sue} to follow, and cf. {Sect}, {Suite}.]
   1. The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit. [Obs.]
   
   2. The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to
      gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain
      result; pursuit; endeavor.
   
            Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone.
                                                  --Spenser.
   
   3. The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in
      marriage; courtship.
   
            Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till
            this funereal web my labors end.      --Pope.
   
   4. (Law) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an
      action or process for the recovery of a right or claim;
      legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of
      right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal
      suit; a suit in chancery.
   
            I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino. --Shak.
   
            In England the several suits, or remedial
            instruments of justice, are distinguished into three
            kinds -- actions personal, real, and mixed.
                                                  --Blackstone.
   
   5. That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants
      or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a
      prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; --
      often written suite, and pronounced sw[=e]t.
   
   6. Things that follow in a series or succession; the
      individual objects, collectively considered, which
      constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions,
      etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw[=e]t.
   
   7. A number of things used together, and generally necessary
      to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of
      things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a
      suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes.
      ``Two rogues in buckram suits.'' --Shak.
   
   8. (Playing Cards) One of the four sets of cards which
      constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen
      cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades,
      cubs, or diamonds.
   
            To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled
            suits and sequences.                  --Cowper.
   
   9. Regular order; succession. [Obs.]
   
            Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit
            of weather comes again.               --Bacon.
   
   
   
   {Out of suits}, having no correspondence. [Obs.] --Shak.
   
   {Suit and service} (Feudal Law), the duty of feudatories to
      attend the courts of their lords or superiors in time of
      peace, and in war to follow them and do military service;
      -- called also {suit service}. --Blackstone.
   
   {Suit broker}, one who made a trade of obtaining the suits of
      petitioners at court. [Obs.]
   
   {Suit court} (O. Eng. Law), the court in which tenants owe
      attendance to their lord.
   
   {Suit covenant} (O. Eng. Law), a covenant to sue at a certain
      court.
   
   {Suit custom} (Law), a service which is owed from time
      immemorial.
   
   {Suit service}. (Feudal Law) See {Suit and service}, above.
   
   
   {To bring suit}. (Law)
      (a) To bring secta, followers or witnesses, to prove the
          plaintiff's demand. [Obs.]
      (b) In modern usage, to institute an action.
   
   {To follow suit}. (Card Playing) See under {Follow}, v. t.
   
   

2. \Suit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suited}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Suiting}.]
   1. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit
      the action to the word. --Shak.
   
   2. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.
   
            Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
                                                  --Dryden.
   
            Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits
            song of piety and thee.               --Prior.
   
   3. To dress; to clothe. [Obs.]
   
            So went he suited to his watery tomb. --Shak.
   
   4. To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his
      place; to suit one's taste.
   
   

3. \Suit\, v. i.
   To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually
   followed by with or to.
   
         The place itself was suiting to his care. --Dryden.
   
         Give me not an office That suits with me so ill.
                                                  --Addison.
   
   Syn: To agree; accord; comport; tally; correspond; match;
        answer.
   
   

1. Ugly and uncomfortable "business clothing" often worn by non-hackers. Invariably worn with a "tie", a strangulation device that partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain. It is thought that this explains much about the behaviour of suit-wearers.

2. A person who habitually wears suits, as distinct from a techie or hacker.

See loser, burble, management, stupids, snafu principle, and brain-damaged.

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