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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