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   Guitguit , n. [So called from its note.] (Zool.) One of several species of small tropical American birds of the family Cœrebidæ, allied to the creepers; -- called also quit. See Quit.
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   Quit , n. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.
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   Quit , a. [OE. quite, OF. quite, F. quitte. See Quit, v., Quiet.] Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
   Chaucer.
   
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   The owner of the ox shall be quit.
   Ex. xxi. 28.
   
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   ☞ This word is sometimes used in the form quits, colloquially; as, to be quits with one, that is, to have made mutual satisfaction of demands with him; to be even with him; hence, as an exclamation: Quits! we are even, or on equal terms. “To cry quits with the commons in their complaints.”
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   Quit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quit or Quitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Quitting.] [OE. quiten, OF. quiter, quitier, cuitier, F. quitter, to acquit, quit, LL. quietare, fr. L. quietare to calm, to quiet, fr. quietus quiet. See Quiet, a., and cf. Quit, a., Quite, Acquit, Requite.]
   To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. [R.]
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   To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?
   Wake.
   
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   To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.
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   There may no gold them quyte.
   Chaucer.
   
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   God will relent, and quit thee all his debt.
   Milton.
   
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   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.
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   The blissful martyr quyte you your meed.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Enkindle all the sparks of nature
   To quit this horrid act.
   Shak.
   
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   Before that judge that quits each soul his hire.
   Fairfax.
   
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   To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively.
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   Be strong, and quit yourselves like men.
   1 Sam. iv. 9.
   
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   Samson hath quit himself
   Like Samson.
   Milton.
   
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   To carry through; to go through to the end. [Obs.]
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   Never worthy prince a day did quit
   With greater hazard and with more renown.
   Daniel.
   
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   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.
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   Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance.
   Locke.
   
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   To quit cost, to pay; to reimburse. -- To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from demands.
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   Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it?
   South.
   
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   Syn. -- To leave; relinquish; resign; abandon; forsake; surrender; discharge; requite.  -- Quit, Leave. Leave is a general term, signifying merely an act of departure; quit implies a going without intention of return, a final and absolute abandonment.
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   Quit, v. i. To go away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
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