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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Acquitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Acquitting. ] [ OE. aquiten, OF. aquiter, F. acquitter; &unr_; (L. ad) + OF. quiter, F. quitter, to quit. See Quit, and cf. Acquiet. ] 1. To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite. [ 1913 Webster ]

A responsibility that can never be absolutely acquitted. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pay for; to atone for. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Reflexively: (a) To clear one's self. Shak. (b) To bear or conduct one's self; to perform one's part; as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself very poorly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To absolve; clear; exonerate; exonerate; exculpate; release; discharge. See Absolve. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. aquitement. ] Acquittal. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. aquitance, fr. aquiter. See Acquit. ] 1. The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. [ 1913 Webster ]

You can produce acquittances
For such a sum, from special officers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To acquit. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who acquits or releases. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An admirer of antiquity. [ Used by Milton in a disparaging sense. ] [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Antiquities [ L. antiquitas, fr. antiquus: cf. F. antiquité. See Antique. ] 1. The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Old age. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It not your voice broken? . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The ancients; the people of ancient times. [ 1913 Webster ]

That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity has &unr_;vowed. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An old gentleman. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. [ In this sense, usually in the plural. ] “Heathen antiquities.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. ad- + propinquity. ] Nearness; propinquity. [ R. ] J. Gregory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. équitable, from équité. See Equity. ] 1. Possessing or exhibiting equity; according to natural right or natural justice; marked by a due consideration for what is fair, unbiased, or impartial; just; as, an equitable decision; an equitable distribution of an estate; equitable men. [ 1913 Webster ]

No two . . . had exactly the same notion of what was equitable. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) That can be sustained or made available or effective in a court of equity, or upon principles of equity jurisprudence; as, an equitable estate; equitable assets, assignment, mortgage, etc. Abbott.

Syn. -- Just; fair; reasonable; right; honest; impartial; candid; upright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being equitable, just, or impartial; as, the equitableness of a judge, a decision, or distribution of property. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an equitable manner; justly; as, the laws should be equitably administered. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LL. equitantia. See Equitant. ] Horsemanship. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. equitans, -antis, p. pr. of equitare to ride, fr. eques horseman, fr. equus horse. ] 1. Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Overlapping each other; -- said of leaves whose bases are folded so as to overlap and bestride the leaves within or above them, as in the iris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. equitatio, fr. equitare: cf. F. équitation. ] A riding, or the act of riding, on horseback; horsemanship. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pretender to equitation mounted. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aequus equal + tempus, temporis, time. ] Contemporaneous. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖pos>n. pl [ L., pl. of eques a horseman. ] (Rom. Antiq.) An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Equities [ F. équité, L. aequitas, fr. aequus even, equal. See Equal. ] 1. Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; fairness in determination of conflicting claims; impartiality. [ 1913 Webster ]

Christianity secures both the private interests of men and the public peace, enforcing all justice and equity. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) An equitable claim; an equity of redemption; as, an equity to a settlement, or wife's equity, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) A system of jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it. [ 1913 Webster ]

Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Equitable jurisprudence in England and in the United States grew up from the inadequacy of common-law forms to secure justice in all cases; and this led to distinct courts by which equity was applied in the way of injunctions, bills of discovery, bills for specified performance, and other processes by which the merits of a case could be reached more summarily or more effectively than by common-law suits. By the recent English Judicature Act (1873), however, the English judges are bound to give effect, in common-law suits, to all equitable rights and remedies; and when the rules of equity and of common law, in any particular case, conflict, the rules of equity are to prevail. In many jurisdictions in the United States, equity and common law are thus blended; in others distinct equity tribunals are still maintained. See Chancery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Equity of redemption (Law), the advantage, allowed to a mortgageor, of a certain or reasonable time to redeem lands mortgaged, after they have been forfeited at law by the nonpayment of the sum of money due on the mortgage at the appointed time. Blackstone.

Syn. -- Right; justice; impartiality; rectitude; fairness; honesty; uprightness. See Justice. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not equitable; not just. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. inequitatus, p. p. inequitare to ride over. See 1st In-, and Equitant. ] To ride over or through. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of equity; injustice; wrong. “Some form of inequity.” H. Spencer.

a. [ From Iniquity. ] Characterized by iniquity; unjust; wicked; as, an iniquitous bargain; an iniquitous proceeding. [ 1913 Webster ]

Demagogues . . . bribed to this iniquitous service. Burke.

Syn. -- Wicked; wrong; unjust; unrighteous; nefarious; criminal. -- Iniquitous, Wicked, Nefarious. Wicked is the generic term. Iniquitous is stronger, denoting a violation of the rights of others, usually by fraud or circumvention. Nefarious is still stronger, implying a breach of the most sacred obligations, and points more directly to the intrinsic badness of the deed. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an iniquitous manner; unjustly; wickedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Iniquities [ OE. iniquitee, F. iniquité, L. iniquitas, inequality, unfairness, injustice. See Iniquous. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; lack of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Till the world from his perfection fell
Into all filth and foul iniquity. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice or unrighteousness; a sin; a crime. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your iniquities have separated between you and your God. Is. lix. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See Vice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Acts old Iniquity, and in the fit
Of miming gets the opinion of a wit. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. longinquitas, fr. longinquus extensive, remote, fr. longus long. ] Greatness of distance; remoteness. [ R. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mosquito that transmits the malaria parasite; it is most commonly the Anopheles mosquito. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ , n. [ Sp. mezquite; said to be a Mexican Indian word. ] (Bot.) Aany of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the southwestern part of North America belonging to the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large sugar-rich pods, especially the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

Honey mesquite. See Algaroba (b). --
Screw-pod mesquite, a smaller tree (Prosopis pubescens), having spiral pods used as fodder and sometimes as food by the Indians. --
Mesquite grass, a rich native grass in Western Texas (Bouteloua oligostachya, and other species); -- so called from its growing in company with the mesquite tree; -- called also muskit grass, grama grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

. The pod or seed of the mesquite. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] A mosque. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Mosquitoes [ Sp. mosquito, fr. moscafly, L. musca. Cf. Musket. ] (Zool.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic. [ Written also musquito. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Mosquito bar,
Mosquito net, a net or curtain for excluding mosquitoes, -- used for beds and windows. --
Mosquito fleet, a fleet of small vessels. --
Mosquito hawk (Zool.), a dragon fly; -- so called because it captures and feeds upon mosquitoes. --
Mosquito netting, a loosely-woven gauzelike fabric for making mosquito bars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A silvery topminnow (Gambusia affinis) with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control.
Syn. -- Gambusia affinis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) See Mosquito. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. he does not prosecute. ] (Law) A judgment entered against the plaintiff in a suit where he does not appear to prosecute. See Nolle prosequi. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L., it does not follow. ] (Logic) An inference which does not follow from the premises. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. obequitatus, p. p. of obequitare to ride about. ] To ride about. [ Obs. ] -- Ob*eq`ui*ta"tion n. [Obs.] Cockerman. [1913 Webster]

n.; pl. Obliquities [ L. obliquitas: cf. F. obliquité. ] 1. The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation from moral rectitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

To disobey [ God ] . . . imports a moral obliquity. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Paroquet. ] (Zool.) See Parrakeet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. propinquitas, from propinquus near, neighboring, from prope near. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Nearness in time. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Nearness of blood; kindred; affinity. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. quite, OF. quite, F. quitte. See Quit, v., Quiet. ] Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The owner of the ox shall be quit. Ex. xxi. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word is sometimes used in the form quits, colloquially; as, to be quits with one, that is, to have made mutual satisfaction of demands with him; to be even with him; hence, as an exclamation: Quits! we are even, or on equal terms. “To cry quits with the commons in their complaints.” Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Quit or Quitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Quitting. ] [ OE. quiten, OF. quiter, quitier, cuitier, F. quitter, to acquit, quit, LL. quietare, fr. L. quietare to calm, to quiet, fr. quietus quiet. See Quiet, a., and cf. Quit, a., Quite, Acquit, Requite. ] 1. To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it? Wake. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit. [ 1913 Webster ]

There may no gold them quyte. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

God will relent, and quit thee all his debt. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The blissful martyr quyte you your meed. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Enkindle all the sparks of nature
To quit this horrid act. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before that judge that quits each soul his hire. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. 1 Sam. iv. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

Samson hath quit himself
Like Samson. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To carry through; to go through to the end. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Never worthy prince a day did quit
With greater hazard and with more renown. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

To quit cost, to pay; to reimburse. --
To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from demands. [ 1913 Webster ]

Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it? South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To leave; relinquish; resign; abandon; forsake; surrender; discharge; requite. -- Quit, Leave. Leave is a general term, signifying merely an act of departure; quit implies a going without intention of return, a final and absolute abandonment. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To go away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.) Same as Quitch grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

To pick the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Properly quick grass, being probably so called from its vigorous growth, or from its tenacity of life. See Quick, and cf. Couch grass. ] (Bot.) A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quack grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Quitclaimed p. pr. & vb. n. Quitclaiming. ] (Law) To release or relinquish a claim to; to release a claim to by deed, without covenants of warranty against adverse and paramount titles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Quit, a. + claim. ] (Law) A release or relinquishment of a claim; a deed of release; an instrument by which some right, title, interest, or claim, which one person has, or is supposed to have, in or to an estate held by himself or another, is released or relinquished, the grantor generally covenanting only against persons who claim under himself. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. See Quit. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]