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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Prepared; ready.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>So <b>fit</b> to shoot, she singled forth among her foes who first her quarry's strength should feel. <i>Fairfax.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Conformed to a standart of duty, properiety, or taste; convenient; meet; becoming; proper.</def>

<blockquote>Is it <b>fit</b> to say a king, Thou art wicked? <i>Job xxxiv. 18.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Suitable; proper; appropriate; meet; becoming; expedient; congruous; correspondent; apposite; apt; adapted; prepared; qualified; competent; adequate.</syn>

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<hw>Fit</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fitted</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fitting</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended; to qualify; to put into a condition of readiness or preparation.</def>

<blockquote>The time is <b>fitted</b> for the duty. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The very situation for which he was peculiarly <b>fitted</b> by nature. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc.</def>

<blockquote>The carpenter . . . marketh it out with a line; he <b>fitteth</b> it with planes. <i>Is. xliv. 13.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that is shaped and adjusted to the use required.</def>

<blockquote>No milliner can so <b>fit</b> his customers with gloves. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To be suitable to; to answer the requirements of; to be correctly shaped and adjusted to; <as>as, if the coat <ex>fits</ex> you, put it on</as>.</def>

<blockquote>That's a bountiful answer that <b>fits</b> all questions. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>That time best <b>fits</b> the work. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To fit out</col>, <cd>to supply with necessaries or means; to furnish; to equip; as, <i>to fit out<i> a privateer.</cd> -- <col>To fit up</col>, <cd>to firnish with things suitable; to make proper for the reception or use of any person; to prepare; as, <i>to fit up<i> a room for a guest.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Fit</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To be proper or becoming.</def>

<blockquote>Nor <b>fits</b> it to prolong the feast. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To be adjusted to a particular shape or size; to suit; to be adapted; <as>as, his coat <ex>fits</ex> very well</as>.</def>

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<hw>Fit</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The quality of being fit; adjustment; adaptedness; as of dress to the person of the wearer.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The coincidence of parts that come in contact.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.</def>

<cs><col>Fit rod</col> <fld>(Shipbuilding)</fld>, <cd>a gauge rod used to try the depth of a bolt hole in order to determine the length of the bolt required.</cd> <i>Knight.</i></cs>

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<hw>Fit</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>fit</ets> strife, fight; of uncertain origin. &root; 77.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A stroke or blow.</def> <mark>[Obs. or R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Curse on that cross, quoth then the Sarazin, That keeps thy body from the bitter <b>fit</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>