a number of things used together; a company of followers or disciples. See also set, stand.
Examples: suit of armour; of beads; of biscuits (1 cwt); of clothes; of diamonds; of hair; of hangings; of hounds; of mallards (a flight); of oars; of pasturing paddocks; of pages, esquires, and chaplains; of pictures; of playing cards; of ribbons; of sails (a set); of saints and good men; of spars; of trees; of witnesses; of married women; of years.