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Quit"ta*ble (kwt"t*b'l), a. Capable of being quitted.

Quit"tal (-tal), n. Return; requital; quittance. [Obs.]

Quit"tance (-tans), n. [OE. quitaunce, OF. quitance, F. quittance. See Quit, v. t.] 1. Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance.

Omittance is no quittance.

Shak.

2. Recompense; return; repayment. [Obs.] Shak.

Quit"tance, v. t. To repay; to requite. [Obs.] Shak.

Quit"ter (-tr), n. 1. One who quits.

2. A deliverer. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

Quit"tor (-tr), n. [Perhaps for quitture.] (Far.) A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.

Quit"ture (-tr; 135), n. A discharge; an issue. [Obs.]

To cleanse the quitture from thy wound.

Chapman.

Quiv"er (kwv"r), a. [Akin to AS. cwiferlice anxiously; cf. OD. kuiven, kuiveren. Cf. Quaver.] Nimble; active. [Obs.] " A little quiver fellow." Shak.

Quiv"er, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quivered (-rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Quivering.] [Cf. Quaver.] To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.

The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind.

Shak.

And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.

Addison.

Quiv"er, n. The act or state of quivering; a tremor.

Quiv"er, n. [OF. cuivre, cuevre, coivre, LL. cucurum, fr. OHG. chohhri quiver, receptacle, G. kˆcher quiver; akin to AS. cocor, cocur, cocer, D. koker. Cf. Cocker a high shoe.] A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.

Beside him hung his bow And quiver, with three-bolted thunder stored.

Milton.

Quiv"ered (-rd), a. 1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. "Like a quivered nymph with arrows keen." Milton.

2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. "Whose quills stand quivered at his ear." Pope.

Quiv"er*ing*ly (-r*ng*l), adv. With quivering motion.

||Qui` vive" (k` vv"). [F., fr. qui who + vive, pres. subj. of vivre to ||live.] The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; -- used like ||the English challenge: "Who comes there?"

To be on the qui vive, to be on guard; to be watchful and alert, like a sentinel.