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▪ I. quitch, n.1|kwɪtʃ|
Forms: 1 quice, cwice, etc., 6 quyche, 7–8 quich, 7 cuich, quoich, 6– quitch. See also quick n.2, couch n.2, and twitch.
[OE. cwice = MLG. kweke (hence G. quecke), Du. kweek; usually supposed to be related to cwic, quick a., in reference to its vitality.]
1. A species of grass. = couch n.2
a700Epinal Gloss. 464 Gramen, quiquae [Erfurt quicae, Corpus quice]. c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 182 ᵹenym þysse wyrte leaf þe man gramen & oðrum naman cwice nemneð. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §14 All these maner of otes weare the ground very sore, and maketh it to beare quyche. 1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. 22 Some long roots of Quich, or Dogs-grass wreathed about the bones. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Corn land, A good fallowing..will kill the Quitch Sorrel, moss and other trumpery. 1816F. Vanderstraeten Improved Agric. p. xv, Destroying weeds, and particularly quitch or dog-grass. 1884Britten & Holland Plant-n. 394.
fig.1859Tennyson Enid 1751 The vicious quitch Of blood and custom.
b. Also quitch-grass in same sense.
1587L. Mascall Govt. Cattle, Oxen (1627) 73 [It] groweth in some Gardens like to a quitch grasse. 1601Holland Pliny II. 206 The Quich-grasse..or Dogs-grasse, is the commonest herbe that groweth. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 66 You avoid Quich-grass, and other Weeds. 1840Browning Sordello iv. 23 The thoroughfares were overrun with weed—Docks, quitchgrass.
†2. quitch-hay (see quot.). Obs. rare—1.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §25 Quyche hey commeth of a grasse called crofote,..and it is the beste hey for horses and beastes, and the sweteste.
▪ II. † quitch, n.2
obs. variant of twitch n.
1600Surflet Countrie Farme i. xxii. 271 Two straight rules of wood as it were..quitches or pincers.
▪ III. † quitch, n.3
obs. variant of coach.
a1693Aubrey Lives, W. Aubrey (1898) I. 60 He kept his coach, which was rare in those dayes. The Judge told me they then (vulgarly) called it a Quitch.
▪ IV. quitch
variant of quetch v. |