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    Fit , imp. & p. p. of Fight. [Obs. or Colloq.]
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    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, a. [Compar. Fitter ; superl. Fittest .] [OE. fit, fyt; cf. E. feat neat, elegant, well made, or icel. fitja to web, knit, OD. vitten to suit, square, Goth. fētjan to adorn. √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 standard of duty, propriety, 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 , 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 , 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, 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, n. [AS. fit strife, fight; of uncertain origin. √ 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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