Dictionary entry

Suspect (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sus‐pect″, n. [LL. suspectus. See Suspect, a.] 1. Suspicion. Chaucer.

So with suspect, with fear and grief, dismayed. Fairfax.

2. One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; — formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime. Bacon.