DEFINITION
FIT:
• imp. & p. p. of Fight.
• (n.) In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a
ballad; a passus.
• (superl.) Adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature
or by art; suited by character, qualitties, circumstances, education,
etc.; qualified; competent; worthy.
• (superl.) Prepared; ready.
• (superl.) Conformed to a standart of duty, properiety, or taste;
convenient; meet; becoming; proper.
• (v. t.) To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended;
to qualify; to put into a condition of readiness or preparation.
• (v. t.) 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.
• (v. t.) To supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that
is shaped and adjusted to the use required.
• (v. t.) 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.
• (v. i.) To be proper or becoming.
• (v. i.) To be adjusted to a particular shape or size; to suit; to
be adapted; as, his coat fits very well.
• (n.) The quality of being fit; adjustment; adaptedness; as of dress
to the person of the wearer.
• (n.) The coincidence of parts that come in contact.
• (n.) The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
• (n.) A stroke or blow.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A passing humor; a caprice; a sudden and unusual effort,
activity, or motion, followed by relaxation or insction; an impulse and
irregular action.
• (n.) A darting point; a sudden emission.