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▪ I. quitter, quittor, n.1 Now rare.|ˈkwɪtə(r)|
Forms: 3–4 quiture, 4 quyt-, 5 quet-, 5–6 quytt-, (5 -ur), 6–7 quitture, (7 -ur); 4 qwetour, quet-, quitoure, 5 quyteour, whitour, whytoure, 7 quittour; 5 quetor, 7–9 quittor; 4–5 quyter(e, quytter(e, 5 quet-, quiter, 6– quitter, (8 coutre).
[Perh. a. OF. quiture, cuiture cooking, decoction, etc. (but app. not recorded in the specific sense of the Eng. word).]
1. Pus; suppurating matter; a purulent discharge from a wound or sore. Obs. exc. Jamaican.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 8596 Heo..wess hor vet & clene þe quiture [v.rr. qwetour, quetoure] out soȝte. c1305St. Edmund 159 in E.E.P. (1862) 75 Moche del his bodi orn in quitoure & in blode. 1382Wyclif Job ii. 8 [Job] with a sherd scrapide awei the quyture. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 37 Þilke quyttere & blood schulde lette þe helynge of þe wounde. c1440Promp. Parv. 525/2 Whytowre, of a soore, sanies. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. Interpret. Strange Wordes, Colde apostemes utterynge quytture or fylthe. 1601Holland Pliny II. 424 The filthy excrements, attyr, and quitter, that gather in sores and wounds. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 305 The nourishing juice..emptying it self by those corrupted sores in a quitture or Sanies. 1689Hickeringill Ceremony Monger Concl. i. Wks. 1716 II. 454 To let the corrupted Quitter out. 1943,1952in Cassidy & Le Page Dict. Jamaican Eng. 1961F. G. Cassidy Jamaica Talk i. 4 The ginger-grower in Christiana who spoke of the quitter (pus) in a wound..which the OED traces no later than 1689 in this sense.
fig.c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 231 So shulde men..thriste oute þo quyter of hor olde synnes.
2. Farriery. = quitter-bone (see 4).
1703Lond. Gaz. No. 3964/4 A Quitter lately taken out of his further Foot behind. 1794Sporting Mag. III. 34 Sandcracks, quittors, strains in the back-sinews. 1843Youatt Horse xix. 394 Quittor..has been described as being the result of neglected or bad tread, or over-reach. 1900Times 2 Oct. 13/4 He examined the mare and found it suffering from a bad quitter which was discharging matter. 1917W. Owen Let. 21 Feb. (1967) 437 Certain cases of Thrush, Quitter, and such suppurations go one worse than the battlefield-exhalations.
†3. The dross of tin. Obs. rare—0.
1674Blount Glossogr. (ed. 4). 1736Ainsworth Lat. Dict. [Hence in Johnson and mod. Dicts.]
4. Comb. † quitter-bone, an ulcer or suppurating sore on the coronet of a horse's hoof. Obs. (See also twitter-bone.)
1598Florio, Seta,..a disease in a horse called a quitter-bone. 1614B. Jonson Barth. Fair ii. v, She has..the quitter bone i' the tother legge. 1639T. de la Grey Expert Ferrier ii. xvii. 298 A Quitter-bone..commeth to a horse by some hurt he hath taken in the foot. 1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4771/4 Lately cured of a Coutre Bone on the off Foot behind. 1755J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) I. 337 A roan horse, with..a small quitter bone on the farther leg before. 1798Lawrence Treat. Horses II. 520 A quittor, formerly called by our farriers a quittor bone.
Hence † ˈquitterish, † ˈquitterous, † ˈquittery adjs., containing, or of the nature of, pus. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lxii. (1495) 278 It bredeth a drye scabbe and not quyttery. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. ii. i. iii. 48 Apostemes,..quitterous, ful of water. 1582Batman On Barthol. xxix. 97 In whom the spettle is quitterie and venemous. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. ii. v. 95 Of a quittorish nature.
▪ II. quitter, n.2|ˈkwɪtə(r)|
[f. quit v. + -er1.]
†1. One who frees, discharges, etc. Obs. rare—0.
1611Cotgr., Quiteur, a quitter, acquiter, freer, discharger. [1736Ainsworth Lat. Dict. Hence in Johnson, and later Dicts.]
2. One who, or that which, ‘quits’, goes away, shirks, etc. orig. U.S.
1881Standard 7 Sept. 5/2 They may perhaps have a right to the term ‘quitter’, to stigmatise an animal that will not make a fight. 1887Columbus (Ohio) Disp. 31 May, The mighty pressure gives confidence that the [gas] well will not be a quitter. 1897Outing (U.S.) XXIX. 581/1 Leggins may be fat, but he's no quitter. 1908‘O. Henry’ in American Mag. LXVII. 69/2, I can stand the fabulous monster that..blows hot birds and cold bottles with the same breath. But I can't stand a quitter. 1923Auckland Weekly News 11 Oct. 16/6 He dropped in on me one evening and started to upbraid me for being a quitter. 1931Sun (Baltimore) 12 Jan. 8/6 George Muehlebach..who..became a quitter in the draft fight via the secret mail-vote route is still filled with fight. 1937G. Frankau More of Us viii. 94 Stout lad was Jack, and last to play the quitter From lady's side for any casual stares. 1949Sat. Even. Post 15 Oct. 141/3 It's been worn by great battlers in every sport, but never by a quitter or dirty player. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 6 July 8-a/5 Records show about 14 per cent of the benefits paid in 1975 were to voluntary quitters.
▪ III. † ˈquitter, v.1 Obs.
Forms: 4 quyter, 5 quittur, whytowryn.
[f. quitter n.1]
intr. To form pus; to fill with pus. Also pass. in same sense. Hence ˈquittering ppl. a. (in quot. fig.).
1382Wyclif Wisd. vi. 25 Ne with the quyterende enuye weie I shal han. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 9 If þat tweye woundis ben euene I-quytturid. Ibid. 207 Whanne þe enpostym is quitturid & sufficiently rotid. c1440Promp. Parv. 525/2 Whytowryn, as soorys, idem quod whelyn.
▪ IV. ˈquitter, v.2 orig. Sc. arch. rare.
[Prob. of Scand. origin: cf. MSw. qvitra, Sw. qvittra, Da. kvidre to chirp, twitter.]
a. To twitter.
b. To flicker, quiver.
1513Douglas æneis ii. viii. 63 With forkit tong intil hir moutht quitterand. Ibid. xii. Prol. 241 The gukgo galis, and so quytteris the quaill. 1872Mrs. Stowe Oldtown Fireside Stories 64 There was the old tom-turkey a struttin' and a sidlin' and a quitterin', and a floutin' his tail-feathers in the sun. Ibid. 156 An old tom-turkey, that'll strut and gobble and quitter, and drag his wings on the ground. 1935E. R. Eddison Mistress ix. 171 Shall then these ram-cats of Meszria reap all the honour, whiles we of the Queen's true party sit quittering here? Ibid. xix. 394 Then strike. Not to stand quittering like quails when the event walketh on razors' edges.
▪ V. quitter
obs. f. whiter, comp. of white. |