fit4 (fit)

[Sc., a var. of foot; prob. due to Scand. influence; cf. Icel. fet, a step, pace, foot (a measure of length), = Dan. fjed = Sw. fjät, track, trace, footstep; Icel. fit, the webbed foot of water-birds: see foot.] A foot; a step. Bonny Lizie was weary wi' travelling, And a fit furder coudna win. Lizie Lindsay (Child's Ballads, IV. 64). O think that eild [age], wi wyly fit , Is wearing nearer bit by bit. Fergu on, Poems, II. 107. 2242 2. To transfix; pierce. sore we. Thei ben scaterid, and not ficchid [L. compuncti ] with Wyclif , Ps. xxxiv. 16. fitch (fich), n. [E. dial.) A spoonful. [Prov. Eng.] And when it is raised and removed, put in a piece of a sponge, as much as a fitch , in the hole which the powder made, and it will purge the drine e of the wound. Bar rough, Method of Physick (1624). fitch-brush (fich'brush), n. A brush or hair pencil made of the hair of the fitchew or polecat. Fitch-brushes are much esteemed, as they are elastic and firm, can be brought to a fine point, and work freely. The name is also given to small brushes made of hog's hair. fitché, fitchée (fi-cha'), a. [Heraldic F.; F. fiché , pp. of ficher , drive in, fix: see fitch3 .] In her .: ( a ) Sharpened or cut to a point; ending in a point: said especially of a cro when the lowermost arm seems as if intended to be fixed in the ( b ) +++ Different forms of Cro Fitché Gules. ground. Le commonly, having a long sharp point attached to the cro or other bearing, and projecting beyond the bottom. Also fiché, fiched, figetive, fitched, fitchy. - Cro fitché double, in her., a cro differing from the Maltese cro in having the arms of equal width throughout. - Double fitché, in her., terminating in two points thus, a cro double fitché has one arm notched at the end, so as to show two sharp points, or, if double fitché of all four, has each arm so shaped. Fitché of all four. See cro estoilé, under cro l. Treble fitché, in her., ending in three points. See double fitché.