Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with
more renown.
Daniel.
6. 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.
Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for
appearance.
Locke.
To quit cost, to pay; to reimburse. -- To quit scores, to make even; to
clear mutually from demands.
Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble
fruits that issue from it?
South.
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.
Quit, v. i. To go away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
Quitch (kwch), n. 1. (Bot.) Same as Quitch grass.