[f. SUE v. + -ING2. Cf. SUANT a.] That sues.
† 1. Following. Obs. rare.
1388. Wyclif, Gen. xxix. 30. He … settide the loue of the wiif suynge [v.r. later wijf] bifore the former.
† 2. Fitting, according to. Obs.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Serm., Sel. Wks. I. 76. It is beter and more suynge þis gospel to seie [etc.].
† 3. Regular, proportionate; even, uniform. Obs.
c. 1369. Chaucer, Dethe Blaunche, 959. I knewe on hir noon other lakke That al hir lymmes nere pure sywynge.
1442. Rolls of Parlt., V. 60/2. That every pece of Worsted be suyng thurghoute the Clothe. Ibid. (1467–8), 620/1.
4. In absol. or advb. constr.: (a) In succession, one after another; (b) afterwards, after.
c. 1400. Maundev. (1839), xviii. 191. He takethe on o nyght, and another another nyght, and so forthe contynuelle sewyng.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, IV. 1658. And sevene dayes, suynge by and by, Þis lif he ladde. Ibid. (1430–40), Bochas, V. iii. (1554), 125 b. Milo … slough hymself suyng the twelue day. Ibid. (1433), St. Fremund, 751. Thre sondry tymes swynge nyht be nyht.
1450–80. trans. Secr. Secr., 5. As ye shalle se more pleynlier sewyng bi ordre.
c. 1500. Melusine, 73. They … made to the kinge reuerence, after siewyng salewed the barons & lordes.
1519. Horman, Vulg., 15. Moses wrytte, what was done, in the begynnynge of the worlde, and suynge after.
5. Preferring a suit; entreating, supplicating.
1581. A. Hall, Iliad, VI. 109. Meaning by force to rauish me, when as preuailed not His fawning toyes and sewing tales.
a. 1586. Sidney, Ps. XXVIII. ii. To thy self those wordes apply, Which from suing voice do fly.
a. 1704. T. Brown, Sat. agst. Woman, Wks. 1730, I. 56. Fools of all sorts with pleasure they admit, While they palm vertue on the sueing wit.
6. Bringing an action at law.
1883. Daily News, 3 July, 2/3. His Honour appointed Mr. H. L. … as receiver of the estate, and restrained two suing creditors.
