Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUIT'OR, n.

1. One that sues or prosecutes a demand of right in law, as a plaintif, petitioner or appellant.
2. One who attends a court, whether plaintif, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror and the like. These, in legal phraseology, are all included in the word sailors.
3. A petitioner; an applicant. She hath been a suitor to me for her brother. – Shak.
4. One who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover.