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SUE, v.t. su. [L. sequor. See Seek and Essay.]

1. To seek justice or right from one by legal process; to institute process in law against one; to prosecute in a civil action for the recovery of a real or supposed right; as, to sue one for debt; to sue one for damages in trespass. Matt.5.

2. To gain by legal process.

3. To clean the beak, as a hawk; a term of falconry.

To sue out, to petition for and take out; or to apply for and obtain; as, to sue out a writ in chancery; to sue out a pardon for a criminal.

SUE, v.i. To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek for in law; as, to sue for damages.

1. To seek by request; to apply for; to petition; to entreat.

By adverse destiny constrain'd to sue

For counsel and redress, he sues to you.

2. To make interest for; to demand.

Caesar come to Rome to sue for the double honor of a triumph and the consulship.


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SUE, v.t. su. [L. sequor. See Seek and Essay.]

1. To seek justice or right from one by legal process; to institute process in law against one; to prosecute in a civil action for the recovery of a real or supposed right; as, to sue one for debt; to sue one for damages in trespass. Matt.5.

2. To gain by legal process.

3. To clean the beak, as a hawk; a term of falconry.

To sue out, to petition for and take out; or to apply for and obtain; as, to sue out a writ in chancery; to sue out a pardon for a criminal.

SUE, v.i. To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek for in law; as, to sue for damages.

1. To seek by request; to apply for; to petition; to entreat.

By adverse destiny constrain'd to sue

For counsel and redress, he sues to you.

2. To make interest for; to demand.

Caesar come to Rome to sue for the double honor of a triumph and the consulship.

SUE, v.i.

  1. To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek for in law; as, to sue for damages.
  2. To seek by request; to apply for; to petition; to entreat. By adverse destiny constrain'd to sue / For counsel and redress, he sues to you. – Pope.
  3. To make interest for; to demand. Cesar came to Rome to sue for the double honor of a triumph and the consulship. – Middleton.

SUE, v.t. [su; Fr. suivre, to follow, L. sequor. See Seek and Essay.]

  1. To seek justice or right from one by legal process; to institute process in law against one; to prosecute in a civil action for the recovery of a real or supposed right; as, to sue one for debt; to sue one for damages in trespass. – Matth. v.
  2. To gain by legal process.
  3. To clean the beak, as a hawk; a term of falconry. To sue out, to petition for and take out; or to apply for and obtain; as, to sue out a writ in chancery; to sue out a pardon for a criminal.

Sue
  1. To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.

    For yet there was no man that haddle him sued. Chaucer.

    I was beloved of many a gentle knight,
    And sued and sought with all the service due.     Spenser.

    Sue me, and woo me, and flatter me. Tennyson.

  2. To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.

    By adverse destiny constrained to sue
    For counsel and redress, he sues to you.     Pope.

    Cæsar came to Rome to sue for the double honor of a triumph and the consulship. C. Middleton.

    The Indians were defeated and sued for peace. Jefferson.

  3. To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.

    (b)
  4. To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.
  5. To clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk.
  6. To woo; to pay addresses as a lover.

    Massinger.
  7. To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship.

    R. H. Dana, Jr.

    To sue out (Law), to petition for and take out, or to apply for and obtain; as, to sue out a writ in chancery; to sue out a pardon for a criminal.

  8. To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship.

    R. H. Dana, Jr.
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Sue

SUE, verb transitive su. [Latin sequor. See Seek and Essay.]

1. To seek justice or right from one by legal process; to institute process in law against one; to prosecute in a civil action for the recovery of a real or supposed right; as, to sue one for debt; to sue one for damages in trespass. Matthew 5:40.

2. To gain by legal process.

3. To clean the beak, as a hawk; a term of falconry.

To sue out, to petition for and take out; or to apply for and obtain; as, to sue out a writ in chancery; to sue out a pardon for a criminal.

SUE, verb intransitive To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek for in law; as, to sue for damages.

1. To seek by request; to apply for; to petition; to entreat.

By adverse destiny constrain'd to sue

For counsel and redress, he sues to you.

2. To make interest for; to demand.

Caesar come to Rome to sue for the double honor of a triumph and the consulship.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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CUFF, n. [L.,Gr.]

1. A blow with the fist; a stroke; a box.

2. It is used of fowls that fight with their talons.

To be at fisty-cuffs, to fight with blows of the fist.

CUFF, v.t. To strike with the fist, as a man; or with talons or wings, as a fowl.

CUFF, v.i. To fight; to scuffle.

CUFF, n. [This word probably signifies a fold or doubling.] The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand.

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