Fit - FIT, n. [L. peto, impeto, to assult, or to Eng. pet, and primarily to denote a rushing on or attach, or a start. See fit, suitable.]
1. The invasion, exacerbation or paroxysm of a disease. We apply the word to the return of an ague, after intermission, as a cold fit. We apply it to the first attack, or to the return of other diseases, as a fit of the gout or stone; and in general, to a disease however continued, as a fit of sickness.
2. A sudden and violent attack of disorder, in which the body is often convulsed, and sometimes senseless; as a fit of apoplexy or epilepsy; hysteric fits.
3. Any short return after intermission; a turn; a period or interval. He moves by fits and starts.
By fits my swelling grief appears.
4. A temporary affection or attack; as a fit of melancholy, or of grief; a fit of pleasure.
5. Disorder; distemperature.
6. Anciently, a song, or part of a song; a strain; a canto.
FIT, a. [This is from the root of Eng. pass; pat. In L. competo, whence compatible, signifies properly to meet or to fall on, hence to suit or be fit, from peto. This is probably the same word. The primary sense is to come to, to fall on, hence to meet, to extend to, to be close, to suit. To come or fall, is the primary sense of time or season.]
1. Suitable; convenient; meet; becoming.
Is it fit to say to a king, thou art wicked? Job 34.
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Col 3.
2. Qualified; as men of valor fit for war.
No man having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. Luke 9.
FIT, v.t.
1. To adapt; to suit; to make suitable.
The carpenter - marketh it out like a line, he fitteth it with planes. Isa 44.
2. To accommodate a person with any thing; as, the tailor fits his customer with a coat. The original phrase is, he fits a coat to his customer. But the phrase implies also furnishing, providing a thing suitable for another.
3. To prepare; to put in order for; to furnish with things proper or necessary; as, to fit a ship for a long voyage. Fit yourself for action or defense.
4. To qualify; to prepare; as, to fit a student for college.
To fit out, to furnish; to equip; to supply with necessaries or means; as, to fit out a privateer.
To fit up, to prepare; to furnish with things suitable; to make proper for the reception or use of any person; as, to fit up a house for a guest.
FIT, v.i.
1. To be proper or becoming.
Nor fits it to prolong the feast.
2. To suit or be suitable; to be adapted. His coat fits very well. But this is an elliptical phrase.
Five - FIVE, a.
Four and one added; the half of ten; as five men; five loaves. Like other adjectives, it is often used as a noun.
Five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Mat 25.
Flee - FLEE, v.i.
1. To run with rapidity, as from danger; to attempt to escape; to hasten from danger or expected evil. The enemy fled at the first fire.
Arise, take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt. Mat 2.
2. To depart; to leave; to hasten away.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4.
3. To avoid; to keep at a distance from.
Flee fornication; flee from idolatry. 1 Cor 6:10.
To flee the question or from the question, in legislation, is said of a legislator who, when a question is to be put to the house, leaves his seat to avoid the dilemma of voting against his conscience, or giving an unpopular vote. In the phrases in which this verb appears to be transitive, there is really an ellipsis.
Flight - FLIGHT, n. [See Fly.]
1. The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape danger or expected evil; hasty departure.
Pray ye that your flight be not in winter. Mat 24.
To put to flight, to turn to flight, is to compel to run away; to force to escape.
2. The act of flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volation; as the flight of birds and insects.
3. The manner of flying. Every fowl has its particular flight; the flight of the eagle is high; the flight of the swallow is rapid, with sudden turns.
4. Removal from place to place by flying.
5. A flock of birds flying in company; as a flight of pigeons or wild geese.
6. A number of beings flying or moving through the air together; as a flight of angels.
7. A number of things passing through the air together; a volley; as a flight of arrows.
8. A periodical flying of birds in flocks; as the spring flight or autumnal flight of ducks or pigeons.
9. In England, the birds produced in the same season.
10. The space passed by flying.
11. A mounting; a soaring; lofty elevation and excursion; as a flight of imagination or fancy; a flight of ambition.
12. Excursion; wandering; extravagant sally; as a flight of folly.
13. The power of flying.
14. In certain lead works, a substance that flies off in smoke.
Flight of stairs, the series of stairs from the floor, or from one platform to another.
Flow - FLOW, v.i. [L. fluo, contracted from fugo, for it forms fluri, fuctum. In one case, the word would agree with the root of blow, L. flo; in the other, with the root of fly.]
1. To move along an inclined plane, or on descending ground, by the operation of gravity, and with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid. A solid body descends or moves in mass, as a ball or a wheel; but in the flowing of liquid substances, and others consisting of very fine particles, there is a constant change of the relative position of some parts of the substance, as in the case with a stream of water, of quicksilver, and of sand. Particles at the bottom and sides of the stream, being somewhat checked by friction, move slower than those in the middle and near the surface of the current. Rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
2. To melt; to become liquid.
That the mountains might flow down at they presence.
Isa 64.
3. To proceed; to issue. Evils flow from different sources. Wealth flows from industry and economy. All our blessings flow from divine bounty
4. To abound; to have in abundance.
In that day the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk. Joel 3.
5. To be full; to be copious; as flowing cups or goblets.
6. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperity; as a flowing period; flowing numbers.
7. To be smooth, as composition or utterance. The orator has a flowing tongue.
Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
8. To hang loose and waving; as a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
The imperial purple flowing in his train.
9. To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb. The tide flows twice in twenty four hours.
10. To move in the arteries and veins of the body; to circulate, as blood.
11. To issue, as rays or beams of light.
Light flows from the sun.
12. To move in a stream, as air.
FLOW, v.t. To cover with water; to overflow; to inundate. The low grounds along the river are annually flowed.
FLOW, n.
1. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as a flow of water; a flow of blood.
2. A current of water with a swell or rise; as the flow and ebb of tides.
3. A stream of any thing; as a flow of wealth into the country.
4. Abundance; copiousness with action; as a flow of spirits.
5. A stream of diction, denoting abundance of words at command and facility of speaking; volubility.
6. Free expression or communication of generous feelings and sentiments.
The feast of reason, and the flow of soul.