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To solicit or sue a woman in love; to court, make love.
intransitive. To pursue a woman romantically, to engage in courtship; to be a suitor to a woman. Obsolete (archaic in later use).
intransitive. Of a man: to engage in behaviour intended to persuade a woman to marry him. Now rare and chiefly archaic.
intransitive. To be a suitor or wooer. Frequently with to, †unto.