fitchet (fichet)

A variant of fitchew. fitchew (fich'ö), n. [Also fitchet and fitch (see fitch2 ), and dial. fitchee, fitcher, fitchole, fitchuk, etc.; Vnder that cope a cote hath he furred, With foyns, or with fitchewes other fyn beuer. Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 295. To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew , a toad, I would not care; but to be Menelaus, I would conspire against destiny. Shak., T. and C., v. 1. fitchole (fich'öl), n. A dialectal variant of fitchew. II. in trans. To kick. fits (fit), a. [A dial. var. of feat2, in same sense.] Great; long: as, a fit time; a a fit deal of trouble. [Prov. Eng.] fits (fit). [A mod. dial. pret. pr and pp. of fight (like lit of light ), after the supposed sup analogy of bit, bit or bitten, writ (obs.), writ (obs.) or writ ten, etc., pret. and pp. of bite, write, etc.] A dialectal preterit and past participle of fight. fitch1 (fich), n. [E. dial., usually in pl. fitches; version of the Bible the word is used to translate two different Hebrew words (Ezek. iv. 9; Isa. xxviii. 25-27). The her., same as fitché. Each board has two tenons fastened in their silver sock ets, which sockets some conceive made fitchy or picked. Fuller, Pisgah Sight of Palestine, II. iv. 4. fitful (fit'ful), a. [ Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Keen, fitful gusts are whispering here and there Among the bushes, half leafle and dry. fittie-lan' 2. A fit, suitable, or proper thing; something adapted to a purpose. I am, sir, The soldier that did company these three In poor beseeming; 'twas a fitment for The purpose I then follow'd. Shak., Cymbeline, v. 5.