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quittorn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French quiture. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman quiture, quyture, quitur pus (c1240; compare Old French cuiture (10th cent. in Rashi in an apparently isolated attestation)), specific use of Anglo-Norman and Old French quiture , Old French, Middle French cuiture cauterization, burn mark (late 12th cent.), burning, itching (as caused by a wound or sore) (13th cent or earlier in Anglo-Norman), act of cooking (c1393) < cuit- , past participial stem of cuire to cook, boil down, to ferment (see cuit n.) + -ure -ure suffix1. Now rare. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > pus or matter c1300 St. Edmund Rich (Laud) 170 in C. Horstmann (1887) 436 (MED) Þe knottes deope wode, Þat muche del of is bodie orn of quiture [c1300 Harl. in quiture] and of blode. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 8956 (MED) In to hire chambre heo drou Boþe meseles & oþere..& wess hor vet & clene þe quiture [v.rr. qwetour, quetoure; queyne] out soȝte. a1382 (Bodl. 959) Job ii. 8 Job..with a sherd scrapide awei þe quyture [a1425 L.V. quytere; L. saniem]. c1400 J. Wyclif (1871) III. 231 So shulde men..thriste oute þo quyter of hor olde synnes. a1450 (c1400) in D. M. Grisdale (1939) 31 (MED) Now a stynkeþ mor vowlir þan doþ any lepur e þe world be þe quiter & scabbe o dedli synne. a1500 tr. Lanfranc (Wellcome) f. 23 (MED) Lege vpon þe bone tobreke a medysyn of mele Roset and þe yolke of an eye till it make whetyr. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny II. 424 The filthy excrements, attyr, and quitter, that gather in sores and wounds. 1670 E. Borlase 62 At the first running it yielded some quarts of laudable Quittor. 1689 E. Hickeringill Concl. i. 74 To let the corrupted Quitter out. 1736 N. Robinson ii. iv. 196 A large Bulk..from whence is discharged a foul, stinking, fœtid Quitter. 1943 372/1 Quitta, pus, corruption. 1952 372/1 Quitter, pus, corruption; comes out of a boil. 1968 9 Mar. 3/3 ‘I shall never forget’, says Cassidy, ‘hearing..the ginger-grower in Christiana who spoke of the quitter (pus) in a wound.’ 1671 J. Webster xxiii. 287 This Tin or Quitter groweth or breaketh in a threefold manner, viz. it slideth, it is full of fumes, and it groweth in pieces... These Sand and Quitter Ores, are environed or inclosed in mighty broad standing passages, which appear to the day with Quitters. 1674 T. Blount (ed. 4) Quitter, is the dross of Tin. 1736 R. Ainsworth I Quitter, Stanni scoria. the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of feet or hooves 1703 No. 3964/4 A Quitter lately taken out of his further Foot behind. a1750 W. Gibson (1751) 438 A quitter is an ulcer formed between the hair and hoof, most usually on the inside quarter of a Horse's Foot. 1794 3 34 Sandcracks, quittors, strains in the back-sinews. 1833 C. Bell (1834) 296 Sandcracks, whitters, inflammations, and other diseases of the horse's foot. 1878 19 Jan. 680 (advt.) Merchant's Gargling Oil..is good for..horn distemper, Crownscab, Quittor, Farcy [etc.]. 1917 W. Owen 21 Feb. (1967) 437 Certain cases of Thrush, Quitter, and such suppurations go one worse than the battlefield-exhalations. 1971 G. W. Serth iii. 34 A quittor is an abscess which forms in the foot and bursts above the coronary band with a sinus running down close to the horny wall of the hoof. 1989 5 221 Necrosis of the cartilages of the distal phalanx (quittor). 2002 (Nexis) 23 Aug. (World of Horses) 7 Horizontal cracks occur at the coronet band as a result of external injury or trauma to the hoof, or internal infection bursting out in the form of a quittor. Compounds the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of feet or hooves 1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. cxliii. f. 99, in The anguishe whereof loseneth the gristle, and so breedeth euill humors, whereof the quitter-bone springeth. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. v. 27 in II She has..the quitter bone, i' the tother legge. 1755 J. Shebbeare (1769) I. 337 A roan horse, with..a small quitter bone on the farther leg before. 1798 J. Lawrence II. 520 A quittor, formerly called by our farriers a quittor bone. Derivatives the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin (new ed.) ii. v. 95 Of a quittorish nature. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 242 Ius þerof [sc. plantain]..clenseþ and druyeth quiterous [L. saniosa] woundes. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo i. ii. 47v/2 Apostemes,..quytterous, ful of water. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.c1300 |
