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One who furnishes outfits for a voyage, a journey, or a business.

Perfect. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Perfectly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Perfect. [Obs.] Chaucer.

g, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain profits. Rambler.

Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor. Arbuthnot. -- Prof"it*a*ble*ness, n. -- Prof"it*a*bly, adv.…

Gain; advantage; profit. That thy profiting may appear to all. 1 Tim. iv. 15.

Without profit; unprofitable. Shak.

To fit or prepare for use again; to repair; to restore after damage or decay; as, to refit a garment; to refit ships of war. Macaulay.

The act of refitting, or the state of being refitted.

Discomfit. [Obs.]

Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.

The under side of the subordinate parts and members of buildings, such as staircases, entablatures, archways, cornices, or the like. See Illust. of Lintel.

The lapwing; -- called also teuchit. [Prov. Eng.]

A votary of the turf, or race course; hence, sometimes, a blackleg. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin unfits us for the society of holy beings.

Want of profit; unprofitableness. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Profitless. [R.] Shak.

See Wyclifite.

A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard.