quirister, quereste

[QUIRE (2), 8.] A chorister, a singer. "The coy quiristers, that lodge within." Thomson: Spring, 61. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0126.png:[blocks in formation] Law : A deed of release; an instrument by which IMG:content-0127.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To leave or remove from a place. 2. To stop; as, You quit teasing me. (1) To quit cost : To pay the cost or expenses; to be remunerative; to give a return. (2) To quit scores : To make even; to choose mutually from demands by mutual equivalents given. quit, *cwite, *quyt, *quyte, a. [O. Fr. quite (Fr. quitte )=discharged, quit, released, from Lat. quietum, acc us. of quietus =at rest, satisfied; Sp. qui to quit. Quit is a shorter form of quiet (q. v.).] Discharged or released from a debt, obligation, duty, or penalty: free, clear, absolved. The word is frequently used colloquially in the form quits, as, to be quits with one; that is, to be on even terms with him, to have arranged claims or demands by mutual conce ions; hence, as an exclamation, Quits ! we are quits or even. "She's quits with them now." - Vanburgh: Provoked Wife , iii. L Double or quits , * Double or quit : A term in gambling, when the stake lost by one player is either to be doubled in the event of his losing again, or to be reduced to nothing in the event of his winning, thus making the two parties quits . ""Twere good to fight double or quit ."- Beaum . & Flet.: King and No King , iii. 1.