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- English Word Quirt Definition A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
- English Word Quish Definition See Cuish.
- English Word Quit Definition Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.
- English Word Quit Definition Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
- English Word Quit Definition of Quit
- English Word Quit Definition To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
- English Word Quit Definition To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.
- English Word Quit Definition 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.
- English Word Quit Definition To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively.
- English Word Quit Definition To carry through; to go through to the end.
- English Word Quit Definition 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.
- English Word Quit Definition To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
- English Word Quitch Definition Same as Quitch grass.
- English Word Quitch Definition Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil.
- English Word Quitch grass Definition 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, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix.
- English Word Quitclaim Definition 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.
- English Word Quitclaim Definition To release or relinquish a claim to; to release a claim to by deed, without covenants of warranty against adverse and paramount titles.
- English Word Quitclaimed Definition of Quitclaim
- English Word Quitclaiming Definition of Quitclaim
- English Word Quite Definition See Quit.