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To fit properly, as at a proper angle (a part of an implement that is swung in using), as a scythe to its snath, or an ax to its helve. [U. S.]

lder. -- Hard water, water, which contains lime or some mineral substance rendering it unfit for washing. See Hardness, 3.- Hard wood, wood of a solid or hard texture; as walnut, oak, ash, box, and the like, in distinction from pine, poplar, hemlock, etc.- In hard condition, in excellent condition for racing; having f…

l salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes.

ure away, as by a harlequin's trick. And kitten,if the humor hit Has harlequined away the fit. M. Green.

To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.

To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail. Spenser.

Pain in the head; ceph "Headaches and shivering fits." Macaulay.

In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.

To render like heaven or fit for heaven. [R.] Bp. Hall.

A hag of or fit for hell. Bp. Richardson.

Neat; fit; comfortable. [Obs.]

ical. Bp. Hall. And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me. Fitzed. Hall.

Of or relating to the stage or a stageplayer; befitting a theatre; theatrical; -- sometimes in a bad sense. -- His`tri*on"ic*al*ly, adv. Tainted with false and histrionic feeling. De Quincey.

ften with implied chance, or luck. And oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. Shak. And millions miss for one that hits. Swift. To hit on or upon, to light upon; to come to by chance. "None of them hit upon the art." Addison.

Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak.

Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive. Not in the legions Of horrid hell. Shak. The horrid things they say. Pope.

A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.

Fit for a garden. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee. These men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments. Dan. iii. 21. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. Shak.

g, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for. Hospital ship, a vessel fitted up for a floating hospital. -- Hospital Sunday, a Sunday set apart for simultaneous contribution in churches to hospitals; as, the London Hospital Sunday.