Obs. Forms: 4 quyter, 5 quittur, whytowryn. [f. QUITTER sb.1] intr. To form pus; to fill with pus. Also pass. in same sense. Hence Quittering ppl. a. (in quot. fig.).
1382. Wyclif, Wisd. vi. 25. Ne with the quyterende enuye weie I shal han.
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 9. If þat tweye woundis ben euene I-quytturid. Ibid., 207. Whanne þe enpostym is quitturid & sufficiently rotid.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 525/2. Whytowryn, as soorys, idem quod whelyn.
