quitch

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quitch - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Quitch \Quitch\ (kw[i^]ch), n.
     1. (Bot.) Same as Quitch grass.
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     2. Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil.
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              To pick the vicious quitch
              Of blood and custom wholly out of him. --Tennyson.
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