Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUIT, v.t.

1. To fit; to adapt; to make proper. Suit the action to the word. Suit the gestures to the passion to be expressed. Suit the style to the subject.
2. To become; to be fitted to. Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. – Dryden. Raise her notes to that sublime degree, / Which suits a song of piety and thee. – Prior.
3. To dress; to clothe. Such a Sebastian was my brother too, / So went lie suited to his watery tomb. – Shak.
4. To please; to make content. He is well suited with his place.