quitter

IPA: kwˈɪtɝ

noun

  • (now rare outside Jamaica) Matter flowing from a wound or sore; pus.
  • (obsolete) Scoria of tin.
  • One who quits, as:
  • One who gives in.
  • One who succeeds in desisting from a vice, especially smoking, drinking, or drugging.
  • (archaic) A leaver.
  • (obsolete) A deliverer.
  • (farriery) Alternative spelling of quittor (“fistulous wound at the top of a horse's foot”) [A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.]

verb

  • To suppurate; ooze with pus.
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