suit

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A set of matching outer garments, especially one consisting of a coat with trousers or a skirt, often worn on formal occasions.
• noun Slang A person, especially an executive, who wears one of these garments at work.
• noun An outfit worn for a special activity.
• noun A group of things used together; a set or collection.
• noun Games Any of the four sets of 13 playing cards (clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades) in a standard deck, the members of which bear the same marks.
• noun Attendance required of a vassal at his feudal lord's court or manor.
• noun Law A lawsuit.
• noun The act or an instance of courting a woman; courtship.
• intransitive verb To meet the requirements of; fit.
• intransitive verb To make appropriate or suitable; adapt.
• intransitive verb To be appropriate for; befit.
• intransitive verb To please; satisfy.
• intransitive verb To provide with clothing; dress.
• intransitive verb To be suitable or acceptable.
• intransitive verb To be in accord; agree or match.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To adapt; accommodate; fit; make suitable.
• To be fitted or adapted to; be suitable or appropriate to; befit; answer the requirements of.
• To be agreeable to; fall in with the views, wishes, or convenience of: as, a style of living to suit one's tastes.
• To dress, as with a suit of clothes; clothe.
• Synonyms To comport with, tally with, correspond to, match, meet.
• To please, gratify, content.
• To correspond; agree; accord: generally followed by with or to.
• noun A following; the act of pursuing, as game; pursuit.
• noun Series; succession; regular order.
• noun The act of suing; a seeking for something by solicitation or petition; an address of entreaty; petition; prayer.
• noun Especially— A petition made to a person of exalted station, as a prince or prelate.
• noun Solicitation for a woman's hand in marriage; courtship; proposal of marriage.
• noun In law. A proceeding in a court of justice for the enforcement or protection of a right or claim, or for the redress of a wrong; prosecution of a right or claim before any tribunal: as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery.
• noun The witnesses or followers of the plaintiff in an action at law.
• noun In feudal law, a following or attendance.
• noun A company of attendants or followers; train; retinue. Now commonly suite.
• noun A number of things composing a sequence or succession; a number of things of a like kind that follow in a series and are intended to be used together; a set or suite; specifically, one of the four sets or classes, known as spades, clubs, hearts, and diamonds, into which playing-cards are divided.
• noun A number of different objects intended to be used together, especially when made of similar materials and corresponding in general character and purpose: thus, a number of different garments designed to he worn together form a suit of clothes; a number of sails of different sizes and fitting different spars form a suit of sails.
• noun Synonyms Request, Petition, etc. See prayer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.
• noun 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.
• noun The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.
• noun (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
• noun 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 swēt.
• noun 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 swēt.
• noun 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
• noun (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; also, the members of each such suit held by a player in certain games, such as bridge.
• noun obsolete Regular order; succession.
• noun Someone who dresses in a business suit, as contrasted with more informal attire
• noun [Obs.] having no correspondence.
• noun (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.
• noun [Obs.] one who made a trade of obtaining the suits of petitioners at court.
• noun (O. Eng. Law) the court in which tenants owe attendance to their lord.