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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fit \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.
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