To play some pleasant fit. --Spenser.
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified
in. --Shak.
Fit audience find, though few. --Milton.
So fit to shoot, she singled forth among her foes
who first her quarry's strength should feel.
--Fairfax.
3. Conformed to a standart of duty, properiety, or taste;
convenient; meet; becoming; proper.
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.
Nor fits it to prolong the feast. --Pope.
2. To be adjusted to a particular shape or size; to suit; to
be adapted; as, his coat fits very well.
The time is fitted for the duty. --Burke.
The very situation for which he was peculiarly
fitted by nature. --Macaulay.
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.
The carpenter . . . marketh it out with a line; he
fitteth it with planes. --Is. xliv.
13.
3. To supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that
is shaped and adjusted to the use required.
No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves.
--Shak.
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.
That's a bountiful answer that fits all questions.
--Shak.
That time best fits the work. --Shak.
{To fit out}, to supply with necessaries or means; to
furnish; to equip; as, to fit out a privateer.
{To fit up}, to firnish 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.
2. (Mach.)
(a) The coincidence of parts that come in contact.
(b) The part of an object upon which anything fits
tightly.
{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.
Curse on that cross, quoth then the Sarazin, That
keeps thy body from the bitter fit. --Spenser.
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.
And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did
shake. --Shak.
3. A mood of any kind which masters or possesses one for a
time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a
fit melancholy, of passion, or of laughter.
All fits of pleasure we balanced by an equal degree
of pain. --Swift.
The English, however, were on this subject prone to
fits of jealously. --Macaulay.
4. A passing humor; a caprice; a sudden and unusual effort,
activity, or motion, followed by relaxation or insction;
an impulse and irregular action.
The fits of the season. --Shak.
5. A darting point; a sudden emission. [R.]
A tongue of light, a fit of flame. --Coleridge.
{By fits}, {By fits and starts}, by intervals of action and
re?pose; impulsively and irregularly; intermittently.