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  • English Word Quit Definition To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting.
  • English Word Quit Definition To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
  • English Word Quitch Definition Same as Quitch grass.
  • English Word Quitch Definition Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil.
  • English Word Quitch grass Definition A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix.
  • English Word Quitclaim Definition A release or relinquishment of a claim; a deed of release; an instrument by which some right, title, interest, or claim, which one person has, or is supposed to have, in or to an estate held by himself or another, is released or relinquished, the grantor generally covenanting only against persons who claim under himself.
  • English Word Quitclaim Definition To release or relinquish a claim to; to release a claim to by deed, without covenants of warranty against adverse and paramount titles.
  • English Word Quitclaimed Definition of Quitclaim
  • English Word Quitclaiming Definition of Quitclaim
  • English Word Quite Definition See Quit.
  • English Word Quite Definition Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken.
  • English Word Quite Definition To a great extent or degree; very; very much; considerably.
  • English Word Quitly Definition Quite.
  • English Word Quitrent Definition A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service.
  • English Word Quits Definition See the Note under Quit, a.
  • English Word Quittable Definition Capable of being quitted.
  • English Word Quittal Definition Return; requital; quittance.
  • English Word Quittance Definition Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance.
  • English Word Quittance Definition Recompense; return; repayment.
  • English Word Quittance Definition To repay; to requite.
  • English Word Quitted Definition of Quit
  • English Word Quitter Definition One who quits.
  • English Word Quitter Definition A deliverer.
  • English Word Quitting Definition of Quit
  • English Word Quittor Definition A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.
  • English Word Quittuple-nerved Definition Alt. of Quintuple-ribbed
  • English Word Quitture Definition A discharge; an issue.
  • English Word Quiver Definition Nimble; active.
  • English Word Quiver Definition To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
  • English Word Quiver Definition The act or state of quivering; a tremor.