Suit
61suit\ to\ a\ t — • to a t • to a turn • fit to a t • done to a turn • suit to a t adv. phr. Just right; to perfection; exactly. The roast was done to a turn. His nickname, tiny, suited him to a t. Compare: to the letter …
62suit\ up — v. phr. To don a uniform or sports outfit. The veterans like to suit up for the Fourth of July parade …
63suit — sb. == do suit? [suite]. RG. 539 …
64suit — suËt n. matching outfit consisting of a jacket and trousers or a skirt; lawsuit; request; courtship; set; any of the four sets of playing cards in a standard deck v. fit, match; satisfy, please; provide with a suit, clothe; be suitable; be… …
65suit — n. a businessman or businesswoman; someone who is in charge. □ This suit comes up and asks to go to the airport. □ A couple of suits checked into a working class hotel and caused some eyebrows to raise …
66suit — [13] As in the case of its first cousins sect and set, the etymological notion underlying suit is ‘following’. It comes via Anglo Norman siute from Vulgar Latin *sequita, a noun use of the feminine past participle of *sequere ‘follow’, which in… …
67Suit and service — Suit Suit (s[=u]t), 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.] [1913… …
68Suit broker — Suit Suit (s[=u]t), 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.] [1913… …
69Suit court — Suit Suit (s[=u]t), 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.] [1913… …
70Suit covenant — Suit Suit (s[=u]t), 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.] [1913… …
