Vocabulary : Quit to Quits

Quit : Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit. ;; Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted. ;; of Quit ;; To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. ;; To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit. ;; To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay. ;; To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively. ;; To carry through; to go through to the end. ;; To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting. ;; To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
Quitch : Same as Quitch grass. ;; Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil.
Quitch grass : A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix.
Quitclaim : A release or relinquishment of a claim; a deed of release; an instrument by which some right, title, interest, or claim, which one person has, or is supposed to have, in or to an estate held by himself or another, is released or relinquished, the grantor generally covenanting only against persons who claim under himself. ;; To release or relinquish a claim to; to release a claim to by deed, without covenants of warranty against adverse and paramount titles.
Quitclaimed : of Quitclaim
Quitclaiming : of Quitclaim
Quite : See Quit. ;; Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken. ;; To a great extent or degree; very; very much; considerably.
Quitly : Quite.
Quitrent : A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service.
Quits : See the Note under Quit, a.
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