Chapter Suilline to Sulphide of S by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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, clubs, 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.

Suit
(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.

Suit
(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.

Suitability
(Suit`a*bil"i*ty) n. The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.

Suitable
(Suit"a*ble) a. 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.

Syn. — Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant; agreeable; competent; correspondent; compatible; consonant; congruous; consistent.

Suite
(Suite) n. [F. See Suit, n.]

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