To pick the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him.
Tennyson.
Quitch" grass` (kwch" grs`). [Properly quick grass, being probably so
called from its vigorous growth, or from its tenacity of life. See
Quick, and cf. Couch grass.] (Bot.) 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, quack grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in
Appendix.
Quit"claim` (kwt"klm`), n. [Quit, a. + claim.] (Law) 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.
Quit"claim`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quitclaimed (-klmd`); p. pr. & vb. n.
Quitclaiming.] (Law) To release or relinquish a claim to; to release a
claim to by deed, without covenants of warranty against adverse and
paramount titles.
Quite (kwt), v. t. & i. See Quit. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Quite (kwt), adv. [F. quitte discharged, free, clear; cf. OF. quitement
freely, frankly, entirely. See Quit, a.]
1. Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is
not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken.
Man shall not quite be lost, but saved who will.
Milton.
The same actions may be aimed at different ends, and arise from
quite contrary principles.
Spectator.
2. To a great extent or degree; very; very much; considerably. "Quite
amusing." Macaulay.
He really looks quite concerned.
Landor.
The island stretches along the land and is quite close to it.
Jowett (Thucyd. ).
Quit"ly (kwt"l), adv. Quite. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Quit"rent` (kwt"rnt`), n. [Quit, a. + rent.] (Law) A rent reserved in
grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other
service. Blackstone.
In some of the United States a fee-farm rent is so termed. Burrill.
Quits (kwts), interj. See the Note under Quit, a.
Quit"ta*ble (kwt"t*b'l), a. Capable of being quitted.