su.

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.

To gain by legal process.

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.

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

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.

To make interest for; to demand. Caesar come to Rome to sue for the double honor of a triumph and the consulship.