A tongue of light, a fit of flame.
Coleridge.
By fits, By fits and starts, by intervals of action and repose;
impulsively and irregularly; intermittently.
Fitch (?; 224), n.; pl. Fitches (#). [See Vetch.] 1. (Bot.) A vetch.
[Obs.]
2. pl. (Bot.) A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible,
representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it
means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a
flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads
spelt.
Fitch, n. [Contr. of fitched.] (Zoˆl.) The European polecat; also, its
fur.
Fitch"È (?), a. [Cf. F. fichÈ, lit. p. p. of ficher to fasten, OF.
fichier to pierce. Cf. 1st Fish.] (Her.) Sharpened to a point; pointed.
Cross fitchÈ, a cross having the lower arm pointed.