Quit

kwit, v.t. to pay, requite: to release from obligation, accusation, .: to acquit: to depart from: to give up: to clear by full performance: ( Spens. ) to remove by force: ( coll. ) to give over, cease:— pr.p. quit′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. quit′ted. — adj. ( B. ) set free: acquitted: released from obligation.— n. Quit′-claim , a deed of release.— v.t. to relinquish claim or title to.— n. Quit′-rent , a rent by which the tenants are discharged from all other services—in old records called white rent , as being paid in silver money.— adj. Quit′table , capable of being quitted.— ns. Quit′tal ( Shak. ), requital, repayment; Quit′tance , a quitting or discharge from a debt or obligation: acquittance: recompense.— v.t. ( obs. ) to repay.— Quit cost , to pay expenses; Quit one's self ( B. ), to behave; Quit scores , to balance accounts.— Be quits , to be even with one; Cry quittance , to get even; Double or quits , in gambling, said when a stake due is either to become double or be reduced to nothing, according to the i ue of a certain chance; Notice to quit ( law ), notice to a tenant of real property that he must surrender po e ion. [O. Fr. quiter (Fr. quitter )—Low L. quietāre , to pay—L. quietāre , to make quiet— quietus , quiet.]