Sue
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process.
(2): ( v. t.) To clean, as the beak; - said of a hawk.
(3): ( v. t.) To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship.
(4): ( v. t.) To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.
(5): ( v. i.) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
(6): ( v. i.) To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.
(7): ( v. i.) To woo; to pay addresses as a lover.
(8): ( v. i.) To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship.
(9): ( v. t.) To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.
King James Dictionary [2]
SUE, 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 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 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, 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.
