fit, fyt, fytt, fytte

[A. S. fit =(1) a song, (2) a struggle; cogn. with Icel. fet a pace, a foot (in poetry), part of a poem; Sans. pad a =a slip, a verse of a poem; pad, pád =afoot.] [Foot.] IMG:content-1687.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1688.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Nice adjustment or adaptation, as of a dre to the body. "He'd two shoes, and one shoe's a boot, and not a fit . " Hood: The Lost Child . (1) Crabb thus discriminates between fit , apt , and meet: " Fit is either an acquired or a natural property; apt is a natural property; meet is a moral quality. A house is fit for the accommodation of the family, according to the plan of the builder; the young mind is apt to receive either good or bad impre ions. Meet is a term of rare use, except in spiritual matters or in poetry: it is meet to offer our prayers to the supreme disposer of all things." (Crabb: Eng . Synon.) (2) For the difference between fit and becoming see BECOMING; for that between fit and expedient see EXPEDIENT. fit-rod, s. Shipwright.: A gauge-rod used to try the depth of a bolt-hole in order to determine the length of the bolt required. fit, v. t. & i. [Icel. fitja =to knit together; Goth, fetjan =to adorn.] A. Transitive: 1. To adapt to any shape; to bring into any required form; to shape, to fashion, to form. "The carpenter marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes."- Isaiah xliv. 13. 2. To accommodate a person with anything; to fit out, to suit. "A tru maker fitted the child with a pair of boddice, stiffened on the lame side."- Wiseman : Surgery. 3. To prepare, to make ready, to equip, to furnish with things nece ary or proper as an outfit; to fit out. "With long resounding cries they urge the train, To fit the ships and launch into the main." Pope: Homer's Iliad , ii. 185, 186. marine; gō, pot. pine, pit, sire, sir fit 4. To qualify, to prepare; as, to fit a person for an office, or for any emergency. "I am not fitted for it [death]."-Shakesp.: Measure for Measure, iv. 3. 5. To be adapted to, to suit, to be fitted or proper for, to become. "Every true man's apparel fits your thief."-Shakesp.: Measure for Measure , iv. 2. 6. To meet, to answer. "An answer that fits all questions."- Shakesp .: All's Well that Ends Well , ii. 2. *7. To be becoming or proper for. "Where it fits you not to know." Snakesp.: Winter's Tale, iv. 4. 8. To agree or accord with, to suit. "This valley fits the purpose pa ing well." Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus, ii. 3. B. Intransitive : 1843 Her.: Pointed, like a dagger; sharpened at the lower part. Fitchée is usually applied to cro es to indicate that they taper from the center downward, or fitchée at the foot , when the tapering commences only at the bottom of the cro . The arms of the See of Canterbury represent four cro es patée fitchée upon the arch i-episcopal pale, which is the principal charge. fitch-ět, fitch-at, fitch-ew Fitchée. (ew as ū), s. [A corrupt. of O. Fr. fi an, from O. Dut. fi e a polecat, from O. Low Ger. * fis ; Dut. vies =nasty, loathsome ( Skeat ).] A polecat (q. v.).