\Fit\,
imp. & p. p. of {Fight}. [Obs. or Colloq.]

\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.]
      To play some pleasant fit.               --Spenser.

\Fit\, a. [Compar. {Fitter}; superl. {Fittest}.] [OE. fit,
fyt; cf. E. feat neat, elegant, well made, or icel. fitja to
web, knit, OD. vitten to suit, square, Goth. f?tjan to adorn.
? 77.]
1. Adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature
   or by art; suited by character, qualitties, circumstances,
   education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy.
         That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified
         in.                                   --Shak.
         Fit audience find, though few.        --Milton.
2. Prepared; ready. [Obs.]
         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.

\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.
         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.

\Fit\, v. i.
1. To be proper or becoming.
         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.

\Fit\, n.
1. The quality of being fit; adjustment; adaptedness; as of
   dress to the person of the wearer.
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.

\Fit\, n. [AS. fit strife, fight; of uncertain origin.
[root] 77.]
1. A stroke or blow. [Obs. or R.]
         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.