a. [f. SUIT sb. or v. + -Y1.]
† 1. Appropriate, fitting. Obs.
1609. J. Davies, Holy Roode, F ij. In loue, in care, in diligence and dutie, Be thou Her Sonne, sith this to Sonnes is sutie.
2. Of hounds: Matching those of a pack.
1856. ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Sports, I. II. iv. ¶ 344. 124/2. Many men draft young hounds from their looks not pleasing the eye, or from their being too high or too low, or not being ‘suity,’ as it is called.
3. Suity-board, in cheese-making: = SUITER a.
c. 1830. Glouc. Farm Rep., 30, in Husbandry (L.U.K.), III. Round boards, called ‘suity boards,’… are occasionally necessary to place on the cheeses.
