Emily Dickinson Lexicon

QUIT, a.

Free; clear; discharged from; absolved. The owner of the ox shall be quit. Exod. xxi. [This word, though primarily a participle, and never placed before its noun, has properly the sense of an adjective.] Qui tam. [L.] A qui tam action, in law, is a popular action, in which a man prosecutes an offender for the king or state, as well as for himself.