fitch (2)

[FITCHET.] Fur.: The skin of the polecat or Fitchet (q. v.). fitch-brush, s. A brush or hair-pencil made of the fur of the polecat. These brushes are prized by artists, as they are elastic and firm, though soft, and can be brought to a fine point. They are black in color. IMG:content-1690.png:[blocks in formation] fit-fül-ne , s . [Eng. fitful ; -ne .] The quality or state of being fitful; instability; impulsivene . fit-lý, adv . [Eng. fit ; -ly.] 1. In a fit, suitable, or appropriate manner; with propriety. "I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale."-Shakesp.: Pericles , ii. 1. 2. So as to fit or agree with other things. "Eche part so fitly pight, as none mought chaunge his place." Turberville The Complaint. 3. Properly, finally, reasonably. "To whom could I more fitly apply myself?"-Dryden: All for Love. (Dedic.) *fit-ment, s . [Eng. fit ; -ment.] 1. The act of fitting or adapting. 2. Something fitted or adapted for a particular purpose. ( Shakesp .: Cymbeline, v. 5.) 3. That which is proper and becoming; duty. "She should do for clients her fitment ." Shakesp.: Pericles , iv. 6. 4. A portion or fitting of a piece of machinery or mechanical contrivance. fit-ne , s. [Eng. fit; -ne .] 1. The quality or state of being fit, suitable, or adapted for a purpose; propriety, suitablene , adaptedne . "Order, proportion, and fitne prevail throughout the whole system."-Beattie: Moral Science, pt. i., ch. i., § 9. 2. Serviceablene , use, utility. "Of no more soul nor fitne for the world Than camels in the war." Shakesp.: Coriolanus, ii. 1. IMG:content-1691.png:[blocks in formation] *fit-ted (2), a. [Eng. fit ; -ed.] Worked or vexed by paroxysms. "How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted In the distraction of this madding fever!" Shakesp.: Sonnet 119. *fit-těd-ne , s. [Eng. fitted (1); -ne .] The quality or state of being fitted, adapted, or suited to any purpose; fitne , adaptedne . fit-ter (1), s. [Eng. fit (v.); -er.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. One who, or that which, fits or adapts things to a use or purpose. "Sowing the sandy, gravelly land in Devons hire and Cornwall with French furze seed, they reckon a great timer: Husbandry. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; 2. A coal-broker who sells the coal produced from a particular mine or mines. "In 1600, the fitters or coalesalemen were incorporated by a charter of Queen Elizabeth."-Flinders Ports of Great Britain , p. 39. II. Mech.: One who fits or puts together the several parts of machinery, in contradistinction to one who makes or prepares the parts. *fit-ter (2), 8. [Etym. doubtful.] A small piece, a fragment. "Splitted them all to fitters."- North. Plutarch, p. 261 2. A quarrel, a division, a contest. "They were in fitters about prosecuting their titles to this city."-Fuller: Holy War , p. 225. fit-ting, pr . par., a. & 8. [FIT, v.] A. As pr . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adj .: Fit, suitable, becoming, adapted, appropriate, convenient. "To seek fresh horse and fitting weed." C. As substantive: Scott. Lady of the Lake, v. 17. 1. The act of making fit, or adapting to any purpose; adaptation. *2. Firm or stable position or condition; stability. "Before it get fitting in fast and stable ground." z. Boyd Last Battell, p. 987. 3. ( Pl .): Articles or nece ary fixtures employed in fitting up a house, shop, ., permanently; fixtures, apparatus; as, shop fittings .