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Fit v. t. (past & past part. fitted; pres. part. 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." "The very situation for which he was peculiarly fitted by nature."

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."

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."

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." "That time best fits the work."

To fit out, to supply with necessaries or means; to furnish; to equip; as, to fit out a privateer.

To fit up, to furnish 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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"Fit out" Quotes from Famous Books

... a gentleman by birth, but has provincial manners. He said, however, that he had no objection to receiving the small amount of money spent on the voyage and on Iris's outfit, because they were not rich people, and it was a serious thing to fit out a young lady suitably. So of course I gave him what he suggested, a check for two hundred pounds. No one, he added with true feeling, would grudge a single dollar that had been spent upon the education of the dear girl; and this went to ...

— In Luck at Last • Walter Besant

... trade and five-sixths of her home trade was in foreign—and most of it in Dutch—hands. Hence any form of sea warfare was sure to injure Dutch trade. The Revolution, moreover, began slowly and feebly, with no well-thought-out plan of campaign, and could not at once fit out fully organized forces to cope with those of Spain. The Dutch early took to commerce warfare, but it was at first semi-piratical, and involved the destruction of ships of their ...

— A History of Sea Power • William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott

... Materialized it, maybe, just as they did the tambourine. You don't suppose a quiet New York lawyer kept a stock of musical instruments large enough to fit out a strolling minstrel troupe just on the chance of a pair of ghosts coming to give him a surprise party, do you? Every spook has its own instrument of torture. Angels play on harps, I'm informed, and spirits delight in banjos and tambourines. These spooks of Eliphalet Duncan's were ghosts ...

— Tales of Fantasy and Fact • Brander Matthews

... see about getting you a commission at once in the Navy," the Prince said, "though I fear you will have to wait until we fit out again. There will be no difficulty then, for of course there were many ...

— When London Burned • G. A. Henty

... lumps of gold, might not be worth what he had given for it, Nunez thanked the jeweller, left him, and returned to Valparaiso. He went straight to his friend Cardatas, and said that he would furnish the capital to fit out the ...

— The Adventures of Captain Horn • Frank Richard Stockton

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