quit3 (kwit)

[Prob. imitative.] The popular name of numerous small birds of Jamaica, belonging to different genera and families. Banana-quits are species of Certhiola, as C. flaveola; gra quits are various small sparrow-like birds, as Spermophila olivacea; the blue quit is a tanager, Euphonia jamaica; the orange quit is another tanager, Tanagrella ruficollis. qui tam kit am)... qui, who, tam, as well, as much as, equally.] In law, an action on a penal statute, brought partly at the suit of the people or state and partly at that of an informer: so called from the words of the old com mon-law writ, " Qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso," etc. quitasolt (ke'ta-sol), n. [Sp., IMG:content-1513.png:[blocks in formation] Then did he incask his pate in his hat, which was so broad as it might serve him excellently for a quitasol . Shelton, tr. of Don Quixote, I. i. 13. ( Richardson , under [ incask .) quitch1+(kwich), v . [Also quich , queach , queatch (also quinch , simulating winch ), more prop. quetch; quicchen , quycchen , quytchen , quec chen , AS.cweccan ( pret.cweahte , cwehte ), shake, causative of cwacian , shake, quake: see quake .] I. trans . To shake; stir; move. Layamon .. II. in trans. 1. To stir; move. Prompt . Parv . , p. 421; Palsgrave . IMG:content-1514.png:[blocks in formation] Fram henne to Ynde that cité Quiteclaym thai schul go fre. Gy of Warwike, p. 310. ( Hall i well .) Wee haue quite claimed, and for vs and our heires released, our welbeloued the Citizens of Colen and their marchandise from the payment of those two shillings which they were wont to pay. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 131. 2. In law, to quit or abandon a claim or title to by deed; convey without covenants of warranty against adverse titles or claims: as, to quitclaim a certain parcel of ground. If any freke be so felle to fonde that I telle, Lepe lyztly me to, & lach this weppen, I quit clay me hit for euer, kepe hit as his auen. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 293. Rob . of Brunпе , р. 115. 2. Freely; unconditionally. Ther-fore, zif godes wille were i wold haue al the payne, To mede ze were fro this quarrere quitly a-schaped. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2341. Qui toll is (kwi tol'is). [So called from the first words: L. qui, who; toll is, 2d pers. sing. pres. ind. act. of tollere, raise, take away.] In the Rom. Cath. and Anglican liturgy: ( a ) A part of the Gloria in Excels is. (b) A musical setting of the words of the above. Quito orange. See or angel. Qui transtulit sustinet (kwi trans'tū-lit sus'ti-net). [L.: qui, who; transtulit, 3d pers. sing. perf.ind.of transferre, transfer; sustinet, 3d pers. sing. pres. ind. of sustinere, sustain.] He who transplanted still sustains: the motto of the State of Connecticut. quit-rent (kwit'rent), n. [ rent. Consydre what seruyce longyth ther-to, And the quyte rent that there-of owte shalle goo. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 24. There was nothing before him but contests for quitrents with settlers resolved on governing themselves. Bancroft , Hist. U. S., II. 355. A gratuity quits (kwits). See quit , a. quit-shillingt (kwit's hiling), n. given by a prisoner on his acquittal. Were any one lucky enough to be acquitted, he had to spend a Quit Shilling for their delight. J. Ashton , Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, II. 245. quit table (kwit'a-bl), a. [ As in revenge or quittal of such strife. Let him unbind thee that is bound to death, To make a quital for thy discontent. Kyd , Spanish Tragedy, iii. quittance (kwit'ans), n . [ quytance , quittance (= Sp. quitanza = Pg. quit ança = It. quitanza ), a release, receipt, quitter , quit, release: see quit1 , v.] 1. Acquittance; discharge from a debt or obligation; a receipt. Hauing paid the custome, it behoueth to haue a quit tance or cocket sealed and firmed. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 272. Who writes himself "Armigero" in any bill, warrant, Shak., M. W. of W., i. 1. 10. quittance , or obligation. Gurth.. folded the quittance , and put it under his Scott , Ivanhoe, x. cap. quitclaim ance (kwit'klā"mans), n . [ quite - clamance , quite clam ance (ML. quiet a clamant i a ), quiteclamer , quitclaim: see quit- 2. Recompense; requital; return; repayment. claim.] Same as quitclaim. Of that Philip, for he suld haf grantise, Mad Richard a quite clamance fro him & alle hise, & neuer thorgh no distre e suld Clayme ther of no right. Rob. of Brunne , tr. of Langtoft's Chron. (ed. Hearne), p. 186. quitelt, a. An obsolete form of quit1. quitel (kwit), adv. [Early mod. E. also, erroneously, quight; Generydes hym sette so vppon the hede That his helme flew quyte in to the feld. But these mine eyes saw him in bloody state, Rendering faint quittance , wearied and outbreathed, To Harry Mon mouth. Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., i. 1. 108. In quittance of your loving, honest counsel I would not have you build an airy castle. Shirley, Hyde Park, i. 1. To cry quittance, to get even. Cry quittance, madam, then, and love not him. No gate so strong, no locke so fir me and fast, But with that percing noise flew open quite , or brast. Spenser , F. Q., I. viii. 4. IMG:content-1515.png:[blocks in formation] Something much more to our concern, And quite a scandal not to learn. Books quite worthle are quite harmle . Pope , Imit. of Horace, II. vi. 146. Macaulay , Machi a vell i. 2. To a considerable extent or degree; noticeably: as, quite warm; quite pretty; quite clever; quite an artist: in this sense now chiefly colloquial and American. Billings. was but three months old, but, as the Americans say, was quite a town. W. Shepherd, Prairie Experiences, p. 76. The lithographer has done his work quite , though hardly very, well. Science , VII. 403. who quits.-21. A deliverer. quitter2 (kwit'er), n. [Also quittor, and formerly quitture; Qwytur or rotunnes, putredo. Nominale MS . ( Hall i well .) Still drink thou wine, and eat, Till fair-hair'd Hecamed hath giv'n a little water-heat To cleanse the quitture from thy wound. Chapman , Iliad, xiv. 7. ( Davies .) 2. In farriery , a fistulous wound upon the quarters or the heel of the coronet, caused by treads, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia quitter pricks in shoeing, corns, or other injuries which produce suppuration at the coronet or within the foot.-3t. Scoria of tin. quitter2 (kwit'er), v. i. [