quisht

An obsolete form of cui e. quishint, n. An obsolete form of cushion. Quisqualis (kwis-kwā'lis), n. [NL. (Rumphius, 1747), named in allusion to its polymorphous leaves and changing colors of flowers, or from an uncertainty at first as to its cla ification; released from a debt, penalty, or obligation; on even terms; absolved; free; clear. Yef ye will, leve me, and yef ye ne will, leve me nought; for I ne leve yow nought, and so be we quyte . Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 168. Tho that ben shryuen & verry contryte, Of alle here synnes he maketh hem qwyte . Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 118. I promise you that when I am quit of these (public affairs) I will engage in no other. B. Franklin , Autobiography, p. 317. Double or quits, in gambling , said when the stake due from one person to another is either to become double or to be reduced to nothing, according to the favorable or un favorable i ue of a certain chance. To be quit or quits (with one), to have made mutual satisfaction of claims or demands (with him); be on even terms (with him); hence, as an exclamation, quits! 'we are even.' [In these phrases the adjective is used as a quasi-noun in a plural form.] I hope to be shortly quit with you for all Courtesies. Howell, Letters, I. iv. 28. I'll be quit with him for discovering me. Sheridan , School for Scandal, iv. 3. To get quit of. See get1 . quit1 (kwit), v. t.; pret. and pp. quit or quitted, ppr. quitting. [Early mod. E. also quite (a form still used in requite ), and erroneously quight; zut more, to make pees and quyte menne dettes,... As Crist himself comaundeth to alle Cristene peuple. Piers Plowman (C), xiv. 76. I am endetted so therby, Of gold that I have borwed trewely, That whyl I lyve, I shal it quyte never. Chaucer , Prol. to Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 1. 183. I'll quite his cost or else myself will die. Greene, Alphonsus, i. A litle mony from the law will quite thee, Fee but the Sumner, & he shall not cite thee. Times ' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 81. Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure. Shak., M. for M., v. 1. 416. First, all our debts are paid; dangers of law, Actions, decrees, judgments against us, quitted . B. Jonson, Cat i line, i. 1. Each looks as if he came to beg, And not to quit a score. Cowper , The Yearly Distre . IMG:content-1510.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1511.png:[blocks in formation] 6. To depart from; go away from; leave. Avaunt! and quit my sight! Shak., Macbeth, iii. 4. 93. She ought to play her part in haste, when she considers that she is suddenly to quit the stage, and make room for others. Add is on, Spectator, No. 89. 7. To resign; give up; let go. The other he held in his sight A drawen dirk to his breast, And said, "False carl, quit thy staff." Robin Hood and the Beggar (Child's Ballads, V. 197). I had never quitted the lady's hand all this time. Sterne , Sentimental Journey, p. 23. 8. To forsake; abandon. Quit thy fear; All danger is blown over. Fletcher ( and another ), Love's Cure, i. 3. Episcopacy he bids the Queen be confident he will never quitt. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, xviii. 9. In archery , to discharge; shoot. Quit or discharge the arrow by allowing the string to pa smoothly over the finger-points without jerking. Encyc . Brit ., II. 377. Sportsman's Gazetforce. Hall i well . 10. To extract; get rid of. teer.-11. To remove by [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] He strove his combred club be to quight Out of the earth. Spenser, F. Q., I. viii. 10. 12. To cease; stop; give over. [Now chiefly colloq.] 4919 Full seldom does a man repent, or use Both grace and will to pick the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him, And make all clean, and plant himself afresh. Tennyson, Geraint. quitter Quite a few. See few. - Quite a little, considerable: as, quite a little busine ; quite a little curiosity. [Colloq.] Quite so, a form of a ent in conversation.