FIT
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Fit (?), imp. & p. p. of Fight. [Obs. or Colloq.]
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Fit, n. [AS. fitt a song.] In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus. [Written also fitte, fytte, etc.]
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To play some pleasant fit.
Spenser.
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Fit, a. [Compar. Fitter (?); superl. Fittest (?).] [OE. fit, fyt; cf. E. feat neat, elegant, well made, or icel. fitja to web, knit, OD. vitten to suit, square, Goth. f&unr_;tjan to adorn. √77.] 1. Adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature or by art; suited by character, qualitties, circumstances, education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy.
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That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in.
Shak.
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Fit audience find, though few.
Milton.
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2. Prepared; ready. [Obs.]
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So fit to shoot, she singled forth among
her foes who first her quarry's strength should feel.
Fairfax.
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3. Conformed to a standart of duty, properiety, or taste; convenient; meet; becoming; proper.
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Is it fit to say a king, Thou art wicked?
Job xxxiv. 18.
Syn. -- Suitable; proper; appropriate; meet; becoming; expedient; congruous; correspondent; apposite; apt; adapted; prepared; qualified; competent; adequate.
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Fit (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fitted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fitting (?).] 1. To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended; to qualify; to put into a condition of readiness or preparation.
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The time is fitted for the duty.
Burke.
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The very situation for which he was peculiarly fitted by nature.
Macaulay.
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2. To bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc.
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The carpenter . . . marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes.
Is. xliv. 13.
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3. To supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that is shaped and adjusted to the use required.
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No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves.
Shak.
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4. To be suitable to; to answer the requirements of; to be correctly shaped and adjusted to; as, if the coat fits you, put it on.
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That's a bountiful answer that fits all questions.
Shak.
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That time best fits the work.
Shak.
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To fit out, to supply with necessaries or means; to furnish; to equip; as, to fit out a privateer. -- To fit up, to furnish with things suitable; to make proper for the reception or use of any person; to prepare; as, to fit up a room for a guest.
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Fit (?), v. i. 1. To be proper or becoming.
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Nor fits it to prolong the feast.
Pope.
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2. To be adjusted to a particular shape or size; to suit; to be adapted; as, his coat fits very well.
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Fit, n. 1. The quality of being fit; adjustment; adaptedness; as of dress to the person of the wearer.
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2. (Mach.) (a) The coincidence of parts that come in contact. (b) The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
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Fit rod (Shipbuilding), a gauge rod used to try the depth of a bolt hole in order to determine the length of the bolt required. Knight.
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Fit, n. [AS. fit strife, fight; of uncertain origin. √ 77.] 1. A stroke or blow. [Obs. or R.]
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Curse on that cross, quoth then the Sarazin,
That keeps thy body from the bitter fit.
Spenser.
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2. A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness.
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And when the fit was on him, I did mark
How he did shake.
Shak.
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3. A mood of any kind which masters or possesses one for a time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a fit of melancholy, of passion, or of laughter.
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All fits of pleasure we balanced by an equal degree of pain.
Swift.
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The English, however, were on this subject prone to fits of jealously.
Macaulay.
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4. A passing humor; a caprice; a sudden and unusual effort, activity, or motion, followed by relaxation or inaction; an impulsive and irregular action.
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The fits of the season.
Shak.
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5. A darting point; a sudden emission. [R.]
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A tongue of light, a fit of flame.
Coleridge.
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By fits, By fits and starts, by intervals of action and repose; impulsively and irregularly; intermittently.
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