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y one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.

Same as Quitch grass.

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.

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 himsel…

See Quit. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Quite. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service. Blackstone.

See the Note under Quit, a.

Capable of being quitted.

Return; requital; quittance. [Obs.]

Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance. Omittance is no quittance. Shak.

One who quits.

A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.

A discharge; an issue. [Obs.] To cleanse the quitture from thy wound. Chapman.

Acquitted; set free; rid of. [Archaic] Shak.

Acquittal. [Obs.] Milton.

The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.

vidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. You can produce acquittances For such a sum, from special officers. Shak.

One who acquits or releases.

An admirer of antiquity.