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Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit.

That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish. Hector shall have a great catch if he knock out either of your brains. Shak.

Fit to be felled. [Obs.] Eyelyn.

Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.

A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc. [They] put a chain of gold about his neck. Dan. v. 29.

and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water to the point of discharge.

hin or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc. Their battering cannon charged to the mouths. Shak.

Capable of being chased; fit for hunting. Gower.

A bargain; profit; gain. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay.

A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.

Making choices; fickle. [Obs.] His choiceful sense with every change doth fit. Spenser.

a recorder of events in the order of time; an historian. Such an honest chronicler as Griffith. Shak.

Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.

Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." Ld. Burleigh. Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. Cowper.

Circumlocution; detail. [Obs.] So without more circumstance at all I hold it fit that shake hands and part. Shak.

o some common relations or affinities. Artificial classification. (Science) See under Artifitial.

Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc. [Obs.] "With cleanly powder dry their hair." Prior.

To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuff Whi…

Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit. I often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a-year. Swift .