Fit \Fit\, v. i.
   1. To be proper or becoming.
      
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            Nor fits it to prolong the feast.     --Pope.
      
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   2. To be adjusted to a particular shape or size; to suit; to
      be adapted; as, his coat fits very well.
      
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Fit \Fit\ (f[i^]t),
   imp. & p. p. of {Fight}. [Obs. or Colloq.]
   
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Fit \Fit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fitted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Fitting}.]
   1. To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended;
      to qualify; to put into a condition of readiness or
      preparation.
      
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            The time is fitted for the duty.      --Burke.
      
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            The very situation for which he was peculiarly
            fitted by nature.                     --Macaulay.
      
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   2. 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.
      
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            The carpenter . . . marketh it out with a line; he
            fitteth it with planes.               --Is. xliv.
                                                  13.
      
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   3. To supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that
      is shaped and adjusted to the use required.
      
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            No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves.
                                                  --Shak.
      
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   4. To be suitable to; to answer the requirements of; to be
      correctly shaped and adjusted to; as, if the coat fits
      you, put it on.
      
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            That's a bountiful answer that fits all questions.
                                                  --Shak.
      
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            That time best fits the work.         --Shak.
      
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   {To fit out}, to supply with necessaries or means; to
      furnish; to equip; as, to fit out a privateer.

   {To fit up}, to furnish with things suitable; to make proper
      for the reception or use of any person; to prepare; as, to
      fit up a room for a guest.
      
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Fit \Fit\, n. [AS. fitt a song.]
   In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a
   ballad; a passus. [Written also {fitte}, {fytte}, etc.]
   
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         To play some pleasant fit.               --Spenser.
   
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Fit \Fit\, a. [Compar. {Fitter} (f[i^]t"t[~e]r); superl.
   {Fittest} (f[i^]t"t[e^]st).] [OE. fit, fyt; cf. E. feat neat,
   elegant, well made, or icel. fitja to web, knit, OD. vitten
   to suit, square, Goth. f[=e]tjan to adorn. [root]77.]
   1. Adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature
      or by art; suited by character, qualities, circumstances,
      education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy.
      
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            That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified
            in.                                   --Shak.
      
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            Fit audience find, though few.        --Milton.
      
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   2. Prepared; ready. [Obs.]
      
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            So fit to shoot, she singled forth among
            her foes who first her quarry's strength should
            feel.                                 --Fairfax.
      
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   3. Conformed to a standart of duty, properiety, or taste;
      convenient; meet; becoming; proper.
      
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            Is it fit to say a king, Thou art wicked? --Job
                                                  xxxiv. 18.

   Syn: Suitable; proper; appropriate; meet; becoming;
        expedient; congruous; correspondent; apposite; apt;
        adapted; prepared; qualified; competent; adequate.
        
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Fit \Fit\, n.
   1. The quality of being fit; adjustment; adaptedness; as of
      dress to the person of the wearer.
      
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   2. (Mach.)
      (a) The coincidence of parts that come in contact.
      (b) The part of an object upon which anything fits
          tightly.
          
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   {Fit rod} (Shipbuilding), a gauge rod used to try the depth
      of a bolt hole in order to determine the length of the
      bolt required. --Knight.
      
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Fit \Fit\, n. [AS. fit strife, fight; of uncertain origin.
   [root] 77.]
   1. A stroke or blow. [Obs. or R.]
      
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            Curse on that cross, quoth then the Sarazin,
            That keeps thy body from the bitter fit. --Spenser.
      
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   2. A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of
      disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces
      convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm;
      hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general,
      an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness.
      
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            And when the fit was on him, I did mark
            How he did shake.                     --Shak.
      
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   3. A mood of any kind which masters or possesses one for a
      time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a
      fit of melancholy, of passion, or of laughter.
      
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            All fits of pleasure we balanced by an equal degree
            of pain.                              --Swift.
      
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            The English, however, were on this subject prone to
            fits of jealously.                    --Macaulay.
      
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   4. A passing humor; a caprice; a sudden and unusual effort,
      activity, or motion, followed by relaxation or inaction;
      an impulsive and irregular action.
      
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            The fits of the season.               --Shak.
      
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   5. A darting point; a sudden emission. [R.]
      
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            A tongue of light, a fit of flame.    --Coleridge.
      
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   {By fits}, {By fits and starts}, by intervals of action and
      repose; impulsively and irregularly; intermittently.
      
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