2. To a great extent or degree; very; very much; considerably. "Quite amusing." Macaulay.
He really looks quite concerned.
Landor.
The island stretches along the land and is quite close to it.
Jowett Quitly
(Quit"ly) adv. Quite. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Quitrent
(Quit"rent`) n. [Quit, a. + rent.] (Law) A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of
which the tenant is quit from other service. Blackstone.
In some of the United States a fee-farm rent is so termed. Burrill.
Quits
(Quits) interj. See the Note under Quit, a.
Quittable
(Quit"ta*ble) a. Capable of being quitted.
Quittal
(Quit"tal) n. Return; requital; quittance. [Obs.]
Quittance
(Quit"tance) n. [OE. quitaunce, OF. quitance, F. quittance. See Quit, v. t.]
1. Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance.
Omittance is no quittance.
Shak. 2. Recompense; return; repayment. [Obs.] Shak.
Quittance
(Quit"tance), v. t. To repay; to requite. [Obs.] Shak.
Quitter
(Quit"ter) n.
1. One who quits.
2. A deliverer. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
Quittor
(Quit"tor) n. [Perhaps for quitture.] (Far.) A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a
horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.
Quitture
(Quit"ture) n. A discharge; an issue. [Obs.]
To cleanse the quitture from thy wound.
Chapman. Quiver
(Quiv"er) a. [Akin to AS. cwiferlice anxiously; cf. OD. kuiven, kuiveren. Cf. Quaver.] Nimble; active.
[Obs.] " A little quiver fellow." Shak.
Quiver
(Quiv"er), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quivered (-erd); p. pr. & vb. n. Quivering.] [Cf. Quaver.] To
shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind.
Shak.
And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.
Addison. Quiver
(Quiv"er), n. The act or state of quivering; a tremor.
