fitchy (2)

[FITCHEE.) Pointed. fit-fül, a. [Eng. fit (1), s., and ful ( l ).] Varied eventful, disordered. 1. To be adjusted or adapted to the shape inby paroxysms; spasmodic; acting by fits and starts; tended; to match the form; as, A dre fits well. 2. To be proper, suitable, or becoming. IMG:content-1689.png:[blocks in formation] "And now the happy season once more fits." Snakesp.: Venus and Adonis, 327. (1) To fit out : To equip, to furnish with the nece ary outfit, stores, armament, . "The Spaniards began to fit out armaments."- Ma caulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xxiv. (2) To fit up : To furnish with the things suitable or nece ary, to prepare. "He has fitted up his farm."-Pope: Letter to Swift. (1) Crabb thus discriminates between to fit , to equip, to prepare , and to qualify : "To fit is employed in ordinary cases: to equip is employed only for expeditions: a house is fitted up for the residence of a family; a ve el is equipped with everything requisite for a voyage: to fit is for an immediate purpose; to prepare is for a remote purpose. A person fits himself for taking orders when he is at the university, he prepares himself at school before he goes to the university. To fit is said of everything, both in a natural and a moral sense: to qual ify is used only in a moral sense. Fit is employed mostly for acquirements which are gained by labor; qualify for those which are gained by intellectual exertion." (2) He thus discriminates between to fit , to suit, to adapt , to accommodate , and to adjust : "To fit is to. provide one's self with the requisite qualification; to suit is to provide the thing with the suitable or agreeable qualities: we fit ourselves for the thing; we suit the thing to ourselves. To fit , in the intransitive sense, is said of things in general as they respect each other; suit is mostly of things as they respect the moral agent. In the mechanical and literal sense, things fit each other; and also in the moral sense, there is a manifest fitne in all things which we term right and just; things, whether of a corporeal or a spiritual nature, are said to suit the taste of a person. To adapt is a species of fitting ; to accommodate is a species of suiting ; both applied to the moral actions of conscious beings. Accommodate and adjust are both applied to the affairs of men which require to be kept, or put in right order; but the former implies the keeping as well as putting in order." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) fit (2), s. [FOOT.] ( Scotch.) *fitch (1), s. [VETCH.] 1. Bot.: Vicia sativa . "He thre eth the fitches oute with a flayle."-Bible (1551), Isaye , cxxviii. 2. Scripture: (1) The rendering of the Hebrew word getsachh ; Sept. me lant hi on = Nigella sativa (the Black Poppy). Its seeds were used for spice. (Isaiah xxviii. 25-27.) (2) The rendering of the Hebrew word ku emeth ; Sept. olura a kind of corn, probably the Spelt (Triticum spelt a ). (Ezek. iv. 9.) The same word ku emeth is translated rye in Exod. ix. 32 and Isaiah xxviii. 25, but rye is a grain of cold climates, Bot .: Vicia cracca is popularly known as the Blue Tar Fitch: Onobrychus sativa as the Medick Fitch; Vicia sativa as the Wild Fitch; and Lathy rus pratensis as the Yellow Tar Fitch.