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Fit \Fit\, v. i.
1. To be proper or becoming.
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Nor fits it to prolong the feast. --Pope.
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2. To be adjusted to a particular shape or size; to suit; to
be adapted; as, his coat fits very well.
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Fit \Fit\, n.
1. The quality of being fit; adjustment; adaptedness; as of
dress to the person of the wearer.
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2. (Mach.)
(a) The coincidence of parts that come in contact.
(b) The part of an object upon which anything fits
tightly.
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{Fit rod} (Shipbuilding), a gauge rod used to try the depth
of a bolt hole in order to determine the length of the
bolt required. --Knight.
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Fit \Fit\ (f[i^]t),
imp. & p. p. of {Fight}. [Obs. or Colloq.]
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Fit \Fit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fitted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fitting}.]
1. To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended;
to qualify; to put into a condition of readiness or
preparation.
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The time is fitted for the duty. --Burke.
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The very situation for which he was peculiarly
fitted by nature. --Macaulay.
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2. To bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to
adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said especially of the
work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc.
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The carpenter . . . marketh it out with a line; he
fitteth it with planes. --Is. xliv.
13.
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3. To supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that
is shaped and adjusted to the use required.
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No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves.
--Shak.
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4. To be suitable to; to answer the requirements of; to be
correctly shaped and adjusted to; as, if the coat fits
you, put it on.
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That's a bountiful answer that fits all questions.
--Shak.
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That time best fits the work. --Shak.
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{To fit out}, to supply with necessaries or means; to
furnish; to equip; as, to fit out a privateer.

{To fit up}, to furnish with things suitable; to make proper
for the reception or use of any person; to prepare; as, to
fit up a room for a guest.
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Fit \Fit\, n. [AS. fitt a song.]
In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a
ballad; a passus. [Written also {fitte}, {fytte}, etc.]
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To play some pleasant fit. --Spenser.
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Fit \Fit\, a. [Compar. {Fitter} (f[i^]t"t[~e]r); superl.
{Fittest} (f[i^]t"t[e^]st).] [OE. fit, fyt; cf. E. feat neat,
elegant, well made, or icel. fitja to web, knit, OD. vitten
to suit, square, Goth. f[=e]tjan to adorn. [root]77.]
1. Adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature
or by art; suited by character, qualities, circumstances,
education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy.
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That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified
in. --Shak.
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Fit audience find, though few. --Milton.
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2. Prepared; ready. [Obs.]
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So fit to shoot, she singled forth among
her foes who first her quarry's strength should
feel. --Fairfax.
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3. Conformed to a standart of duty, properiety, or taste;
convenient; meet; becoming; proper.
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Is it fit to say a king, Thou art wicked? --Job
xxxiv. 18.

Syn: Suitable; proper; appropriate; meet; becoming;
expedient; congruous; correspondent; apposite; apt;
adapted; prepared; qualified; competent; adequate.
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Fit \Fit\, n. [AS. fit strife, fight; of uncertain origin.
[root] 77.]
1. A stroke or blow. [Obs. or R.]
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Curse on that cross, quoth then the Sarazin,
That keeps thy body from the bitter fit. --Spenser.
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2. A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of
disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces
convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm;
hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general,
an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness.
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And when the fit was on him, I did mark
How he did shake. --Shak.
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3. A mood of any kind which masters or possesses one for a
time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a
fit of melancholy, of passion, or of laughter.
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All fits of pleasure we balanced by an equal degree
of pain. --Swift.
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The English, however, were on this subject prone to
fits of jealously. --Macaulay.
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4. A passing humor; a caprice; a sudden and unusual effort,
activity, or motion, followed by relaxation or inaction;
an impulsive and irregular action.
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The fits of the season. --Shak.
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5. A darting point; a sudden emission. [R.]
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A tongue of light, a fit of flame. --Coleridge.
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{By fits}, {By fits and starts}, by intervals of action and
repose; impulsively and irregularly; intermittently.
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